AS Borggreve, BF Kingma… - Annals of the New …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Over the last decades, the treatment of resectable esophageal cancer has evolved into a multidisciplinary process in which all players are essential for treatment to be successful …
D Millbourn, Y Cengiz, LA Israelsson - Archives of Surgery, 2009 - jamanetwork.com
Hypothesis In midline incisions closed with a single-layer running suture, the rate of wound complications is lower when a suture length to wound length ratio of at least 4 is …
M Honda, A Kuriyama, H Noma, S Nunobe… - Annals of …, 2013 - journals.lww.com
Objective: To evaluate the risks and benefits of using a circular stapler (CS) compared with the hand-sewn (HS) method for the esophagogastric anastomosis after esophageal …
M Van Heijl, JA Gooszen, P Fockens, OR Busch… - Annals of …, 2010 - journals.lww.com
Objective: To identify independent risk factors for development of benign cervical anastomotic strictures in general and specifically for refractory strictures after …
RH Kim, K Takabe - Journal of surgical oncology, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Anastomotic complications are responsible for significant morbidity and mortality following esophagectomy for cancer. Conflicting reports exist regarding the superiority of hand‐sewn …
SS Saluja, S Ray, S Pal, S Sanyal, N Agrawal… - Journal of …, 2012 - Springer
Background Leak from cervical esophagogastric anastomosis (CEGA) following esophagectomy is associated with morbidity and poor functional outcome. To address this …
Objective: To compare single-layered hand-sewn cervical end-to-side (ETS) anastomosis with end-to-end (ETE) anastomosis in a prospective randomized fashion. Background: The …
HH Hsu, JS Chen, PM Huang, JM Lee… - European journal of …, 2004 - academic.oup.com
Objective: The use of a circular stapler in cervical esophagogastric anastomosis remains controversial. This study was to compare the postoperative and long-term results of manual …
SH Blackmon, AM Correa, B Wynn… - The Annals of thoracic …, 2007 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: A cervical side-to-side stapled esophagogastric anastomosis appears to decrease morbidity compared with traditional hand-sewn techniques. We evaluated our …