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Among 750 patients diagnosed with esophageal carcinoma in our department between 1972 and 1997, we reviewed our 10 cases in which cancer occurred within gastric tubes reconstructed through the posterior mediastinal route after radical surgery for esophageal cancer. The interval between esophagectomy and cancer onset in the reconstructed gastric tube was relatively long (mean interval: 72 months). Five of our 10 subjects had gastric tube cancer detected at follow-up endoscopy. Four underwent total or partial gastric tube resection with open thoracotomy using colonic or jejunal reconstruction; 3 underwent endoscopic resection. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report on patients undergoing total resection of gastric tubes reconstructed through the posterior mediastinal route after esophagectomy and rereconstruction using the pedicled colon for the gastric tube cancer.
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Suzuki, H., Kitamura, M., Saito, R. et al. Cancer of the gastric tube reconstructed through the posterior mediastinal route after radical surgery for esophageal cancer. Jpn J Thorac Caridovasc Surg 49, 466–469 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02913915
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02913915