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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003;125:1306-1312
© 2003 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery

General Thoracic Surgery

Reliable cervical anastomosis through the retrosternal route with stepwise gastric tube

Yoshifumi Ikeda, MD, Shoichi Tobari, MD, Masanori Niimi, MD, PhD, Shigenao Kan, MD, Hiroshi Takami, MD, Susumu Kodaira, MD

From the Department of Surgery, Teikyo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.

Received for publication Feb 1, 2002. Revisions requested March 11, 2002; revisions received July 16, 2002. Accepted for publication Aug 6, 2002. Address for reprints: Yoshifumi Ikeda, MD, Department of Surgery, Teikyo University School of Medicine, 2-11-1 Kaga, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo 173-8605, Japan (E-mail: yikeda{at}med.teikyo-u.ac.jp).

Objectives: An extra-anatomic reconstruction would be beneficial in preventing recurrent malignant dysphagia. A long gastric tube that allowed a sufficient blood flow was necessary to perform the successful cervical anastomosis through the retrosternal route.
Methods: The gastric tube was created by means of separate division and closure of the seromuscular and submucosal-mucosal layers (stepwise group) in 15 consecutive patients and by means of full-thickness cutting of the stomach and closure of the seromuscular layer (standard group) in 22 patients. We compared these 2 types of gastroplasties in terms of total length of the tube, blood flow, and the incidence of anastomotic leakage. Blood flow was measured with a laser Doppler flowmeter during surgical intervention.
Results: The gastric tube in the stepwise group was significantly longer than that in the standard group (P < .01, unpaired t test). Tissue blood flow at the site of anastomosis in the stepwise group was significantly greater than that in the standard group (P < .01, unpaired t test), and the rate of anastomotic leakage in the stepwise group was significantly lower than that in the standard group (P < .05, {chi}2 test).
Conclusion: We consider this technique to be a useful procedure for retrosternal reconstruction after subtotal esophagectomy.






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