title: History of reconstruction after total gastrectomy.
abstract: Nearly a century has passed since Schlatter carried out the first successful total gastrectomy and antecolic end-to-side oesophagojejunostomy in 1897 in Zurich. Actually, fourteen years before, Conner attempted a total gastrectomy, but his patient died on the operating table. From the first success, a large number of different procedures have populated the worldwide literature, with a lot of papers reporting "original' techniques or data about the functional outcome.
authors.affiliation: Department of General Surgery, La Sapienza University of Rome Medical School, Italy.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Catarci
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Proposito
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Guadagni
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Carboni
mesh_terms: D000713:Anastomosis, Roux-en-Y / Q000266:history*; D005743:Gastrectomy / Q000266:history*; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans