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Ann Thorac Surg 2007;83:728
© 2007 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Correspondence

Ischemic Preconditioning of the Gastric Conduit Prior to Esophageal Resection

C.S. Pramesh, MS, FRCS, Rajesh C. Mistry, MS

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgical Oncology, Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, 400012 India

(Email: cspramesh@vsnl.net; mistryrc@tmcmail.org).

The first 20% of the full text of this article appears below.

To the Editor:

We read with interest Nguyen and colleagues’ [1] article on preoperative laparoscopic ligation of the left gastric vessels in preparation for esophagectomy in a recent issue of this journal. The study rekindles interest in the approach of "ischemic preconditioning" of the stomach to partial devascularization during esophagectomy. The theoretical background behind this strategy is that collateral vessels and anastomoses . . . [Full Text of this Article]






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