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  • Title: Surgical treatment of peptic oesophageal stricture with Nissen fundoplication and intraoperative dilatation.
    Author: Mokka RE, Kairaluoma MI, Larmi TK.
    Journal: Ann Chir Gynaecol; 1977; 66(2):72-5. PubMed ID: 869481.
    Abstract:
    6 patients whose peptic oesophageal stricture caused by reflux oesophagitis was treated surgically with Nissen fundoplication and oesophageal dilatation are reported. In 5 patients oesophageal dilatation was performed intraoperatively and in one postoperatively 2 months after Nissen fundoplication. One patient whose stricture had been treated for 12 years with repeated dilatation required several dilatations postoperatively as well, but now, 6 months after operation, the need and frequency of dilatations are definitely decreasing. Our results of the Nissen fundoplication operation and simultaneous oesophageal dilatation are very promising. We feel that in the surgical treatment of benign peptic oesophageal stricture, particularly if the aetiology of the stricture isgastro-oesophageal reflux, more conservative operations of this type will displace other procedures consisting of resection of the stricture with or without intestinal interposition.
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