Patient Care and General Interest
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Esophagus
March 29, 2019
March 26, 2019
Raja and colleagues evaluated the return of symptoms and rate of reintervention following Heller myotomy for achalasia. Over a seven-year period, 248 patients underwent Heller myotomy.
March 13, 2019
This video highlights a unique combination of endoscopic and laparoscopic skills in the minimally invasive resection of a gastric tumor.
February 14, 2019
Yang and colleagues investigated the use of intestinal flaps for the reconstruction of the cervical esophagus. They reviewed 22 patients with intestinal segments used to salvage failed primary esophagus reconstruction. There was one case of flap failure.
January 23, 2019
Stiles and colleagues evaluated outcomes for patients with esophageal cancer undergoing surgical resection after either neoadjuvant chemoradiation or preoperative chemotherapy without radiation.
January 18, 2019
Mariette and colleagues randomly assigned 207 patients with resectable esophageal cancer to undergo either transthoracic open esophagectomy or hybrid minimally invasive esophagectomy.
December 19, 2018
The authors present a surgical video of a right VATS esophageal diverticulectomy and myotomy, along with advice for carrying out this procedure.
November 16, 2018
Patient Care and General Interest
An accident during a sword swallowing trick was bad news for the performer’s esophagus.
November 12, 2018
This video demonstrates the expected anatomical findings at reoperation after transoral incisionless fundoplication.
October 26, 2018
Patient Care and General Interest
Earl Bakken, Medtronic co-founder and inventor of the pacemaker, has died at age 94.