title: Esophagoplasty with an autogenous tubed gastric flap.
abstract: As an esophageal substitute, a tubed gastric flap 2.5 cm in inner diameter and 38 cm in length, was constructed from the gastric wall along the greater curvature; a pedicle was attached to the gastric antrum, and its oral stump was brought up into the left supraclavicular fossa through a retrosternal tunnel to perform an esophagogastrostomy. Anastomotic breakdown occurred in only three of fifty cases in which this procedure was used.
mesh_terms: D004938:Esophageal Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery; D004944:Esophagoplasty / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D013270:Stomach / Q000637:transplantation*; D014182:Transplantation, Autologous