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The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, Vol 36, 396-401, Copyright © 1983 by The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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Retrosternal gastric bypass for inoperable esophageal cancer: a report of 71 patients

AA Conlan, N Nicolaou, CA Hammond, R Pool, C de Nobrega and BD Mistry

Palliative substernal gastric bypass was performed in 71 patients with unresectable cancer of the intrathoracic esophagus. Fifty-six patients (78.9%) left the hospital, 53 eating normally and 3 on a soft diet. There were 15 hospital deaths (21%), 8 due to respiratory failure and pulmonary sepsis with tracheoesophageal fistulization. The remaining 7 deaths were due to aspiration and respiratory failure in 2 patients, anastomotic leakage with sepsis in 2, subphrenic abscess and septicemia in 1, mediastinitis in 1, and intestinal obstruction in 1. Anastomotic leakage occurred in 17 patients (23.9%), 5 of whom died. Wound infections developed in 28 patients (39.4%), 3 with mediastinal esophagocutaneous fistulas. Reestablishment of unimpeded swallowing, relief of respiratory aspiration, isolation of cancerous tracheobronchial infiltration, and freedom from incident-prone endoesophageal tubes were achieved in all patients leaving the hospital. Information is presented on 25 patients who were available for follow-up.


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