Routine Intraoperative Jejunostomy Placement and Minimally Invasive Esophagectomy: An Unnecessary Step? [1]
Commonly, a jejunostomy is placed during esophagectomy. In this report including 188 patients, the impact of jejunostomy on outcomes after esophagectomy was examined. Jejunostomy lead frequently (7%) to jejunostomy-related complications and did not reduce the risk of postoperative weight loss. The authors concluded that the routine use of intraoperative jejunostomy appears to be an unnecessary step.
Source name:
European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery
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Subspecialty(ies):
Thoracic [4]
Taxonomy2018 vocabulary term reference:
Esophagus [5]