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  • Title: [Treatment of esophageal fistulas after gastrectomy. Apropos of 4 cases].
    Author: Collet D, Ledaguenel P, Périssat J.
    Journal: J Chir (Paris); 1995 Nov; 132(11):430-3. PubMed ID: 8550706.
    Abstract:
    The authors report 4 cases of esophageal fistula following a total gastrectomy. One patient died after a reoperation for a subphrenic abscess, another just before a coloplasty 3 months after an esophageal exclusion. Two patients have been successfully treated by an operation which comprised the removal of the fistula and an intra-thoracic esophago-jejunal anastomosis. This procedure, albeit risked, is probably a better option than the esophageal exclusion usually recommended, particularly in the patients with a malignant disease who have a short life expectancy.
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