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Esophageal Reconstruction by Colon Interposition by Ali El-Domeiri is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Esophageal Reconstruction by Colon Interposition about?
Restorati on of the continuity of the alimentary tract and re- sumption of normal swallowing poses a challenging problem in the management of esophageal cancer. In recent years, segments of colon have been widely used to replace a resected esophagus. However, the use of the colon to bypass a nonre- sectable and obstructive lesion has been highly controversial. The fol- lowing is a retrospective study to evaluate the results of this pro- cedure in patients with esophageal cancer at Memorial Hospital. ## Material and Methods From 1955 to 1968 inclusive colon interposition was performed on 88 pa- tients for malignant tumors obstruct- ing the esophagus. Seventy-five of these were for primary cancer of the thoracic esophagus. This latter group of patients will be the subject of our analysis. The lesion in all 75 patients was epidermoid carcinoma (Figure). Most of these tumors were located in
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- Author
- Ali El-Domeiri
- Publisher
- American Medical Association (AMA)
- Published
- 1970
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)