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  • Title: Immediate reconstruction after total laryngopharyngoesophagectomy and mediastinal dissection.
    Author: Krespi YP, Wurster CF, Sisson GA.
    Journal: Laryngoscope; 1985 Feb; 95(2):156-61. PubMed ID: 3968949.
    Abstract:
    Advanced or recurrent carcinoma surrounding the tracheostoma in a previously laryngectomized patient is most effectively treated with transsternal radical dissection of the upper mediastinum and relocation of the trachea to the upper chest. The use of the pectoralis major myocutaneous flap, now enables the head and neck surgeon to perform immediate reconstruction and provide protection for the great vessels after mediastinal dissection for stomal recurrence. Formerly, patients with stomal recurrence also involving the cervical or upper thoracic esophagus were poor surgical candidates. Frequently, patients succumbed to their disease before the continuity of the digestive tract could be re-established. Currently, at our institution, this vexing reconstructive problem is solved with immediate, one-stage reconstruction. The esophagus is replaced by transposing the stomach through the posterior mediastinum and anastomosing to the tongue base, "gastric pull-up." The mediastinal defect is closed with the concomitant use of the pectoralis myocutaneous flap. The muscular portion of the myocutaneous flap provides excellent coverage for the great vessels of the upper mediastinum. Our experience with 39 patients who underwent this procedure between 1979 and 1983 is presented.
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