title: [Causes of peri-operative mortality in patients with esophageal cancer treated surgically (personal material)].
abstract: 99 surgical procedures of thoracic part of esophagus resections were performed between 1985 and 1995. All thoracotomies were right-sided and alimentary canal continuity were substituted with a stomach (or with a small intestine or a colon in only a few cases) transposed inside a thorax cavity. Almost all cases there were planoepitheliale cancers. The sex index (men to women) was 6:1. The main reason of perioperative mortality were pulmonary complications (almost 90%): a respiratory insufficiency, an atelectasias, infections, and a broncho-pleural leakage. The nutrition state, stapler-using, anastomosis leak, and wound-healing way had no influence on mortality rate. Other mortality reasons there were a pleural hemorrhage, a mediastinitis as a result of esophago-gastric anastomosis disruption, a heart infarct, and a thrombo-embolic complications.
authors.affiliation: II Katedry i Kliniki Chirurgii Ogólnej i Naczyń Slaskiej Akademii Medycznej w Zabrzu.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kozłowski
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Drózdz
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Pardela
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Geisler
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Zbroński
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002423:Cause of Death; D003106:Colon / Q000637:transplantation; D004938:Esophageal Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery*; D016629:Esophagectomy / Q000401:mortality*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007421:Intestine, Small / Q000637:transplantation; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged