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The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Vol 102, 43-49, Copyright © 1991 by The American Association for Thoracic Surgery and The Western Thoracic Surgical Association

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Endothoracic endoesophageal pull-through operation. A new approach to cancers of the esophagus and proximal stomach

F Saidi, A Abbassi, MB Shadmehr and G Khoshnevis-Asl
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Modarress Hospital, School of Medicine, Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.

Many thoracic surgeons have expressed concern about the complications inherent in transhiatal esophagectomy without thoracotomy. The technique of endothoracic endoesophageal pull-through uses a mucosal coring of normal esophagus beyond the tumor and leaves a muscular tube through which the substitute organ is passed. Mediastinal hemorrhage, tracheal injury, and chylothorax are eliminated.




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