Esophagus - Other
Interesting sizeable series, and a commentary that follows, on what is effectively a thoracic example of Natural Orifice Transluminal Endoscopic Surgery (NOTES).
...Interesting sizeable series, and a commentary that follows, on what is effectively a thoracic example of Natural Orifice Transluminal Endoscopic Surgery (NOTES).
...The development of a gastrobronchial fistula is a relatively rare occurrence. The patient in this video underwent esophagectomy for esophageal cancer and a stomach pull-up operation was performed. A few...
Management of subepithelial prepyloric gastric masses often necessitates complex surgeries, including wedge resections or a formal distal gastrectomy. With the high rate of morbidity and mortality, minimally invasive techniques to...
Patient Care and General Interest An accident during a sword swallowing trick was bad news for the performer’s esophagus. An imaging case study from Medscape walks through the echocardiography of...
In this single site retrospective review, outcomes of repair of giant paraesophageal hiatal hernia were reviewed with respect to the effects of patient age. Patients aged 80 or greater had...
The authors present the case of a 42-year-old male patient with a chest x-ray that suggested a cyst abutting his left diaphragm. The CT scan suggested a cyst with homogenous...
An 18-year-old asymptomatic male patient was diagnosed with a retroesophageal cyst. The authors performed cyst drainage via a uniportal VATS approach.
...In this video, the authors demonstrate a robot-assisted Nissen fundoplication with Collis wedge gastroplasty. Following mediastinal dissection and full reduction of the hiatal or giant paraesophageal hernia, the gastric fat...
This video describes the technique of transoral incisionless fundoplication (TIF procedure). A partial fundoplication is created endoscopically in a patient with gastroesophageal reflux disease. The video provides an overview of...
Objective: This video demonstrates the technique for performing a trans-thoracic robot-assisted esophageal diverticulectomy and Heller myotomy. Technique: The patient was a 68-year-old gentleman with Parkinson’s disease who had difficulty swallowing....
This video shows a completely endoscopic treatment of Type I esophageal achalasia using the POEM technique. A 10 cm myotomy was performed at the two o’clock position using a conventional...
Originally presented as a Surgical Motion Picture at the 2015 STSA Annual Meeting Objectives: Achalasia is an end stage motor disorder of the esophagus characterized by absent peristalsis and defective...








