title: Preoperative assessment of the length of the stomach for esophageal substitution.
abstract: This method is easily applied and useful for the estimation of the actual length of the gastric tube in situations of reconstruction after subtotal esophagectomy. The actual length of the gastric tube was almost identical to that of the stomach which was measured from the preoperative roentgenogram. In the end, a safe reconstruction by this approach will decrease the operative mortality rate caused by the leakage of the anastomosis.
authors.affiliation: First Department of Surgery, Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sasajima
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ando
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Yamashita
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Onda
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ebata
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D004938:Esophageal Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D004946:Esophagostomy; D004947:Esophagus / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D005774:Gastrostomy; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011300:Preoperative Care; D011859:Radiography; D013270:Stomach / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery