title: [Transhiatal esophagectomy for treatment of benign and malignant esophageal diseases].
abstract: In 1978 the technique of transhiatal esophagectomy without thoracotomy was rediscovered and now it is widely used in certain, selected, cases. Between 1987 and 2003 we have performed transhiatal esophagectomy in 35 patients with intrathoracic esophageal disease: 13 (37.14%) for benign lesions of the esophagus and 22 (62.85%) for malignant lesions (22.72% upper, 9% middle and 68.18% lower third of the thoracic esophagus). The reconstruction was performed at the same operation in all but two patients. The esophageal substitute was stomach in all but one patient when left colon was used. Hospital mortality was 14.28% with one death due to uncontrollable intraoperative hemorrhage. Major complications included anastomotic leak, recurrent laryngeal nerve paralysis, atelectasis/pneumonia. The advantages of this approach over standard transthoracic esophagectomy are avoidance of a combined thoracoabdominal operation in a debilitated patient and fewer postoperative pulmonary complications and also avoidance of an intrathoracic esophagogastric anastomotic leak with high mortality due to mediastinitis.
authors.affiliation: Universitatea de Medicină şi Farmacie Gr.T. Popa Iaşi, Facultatea de Medicină, Clinica a III-a Chirurgicală.
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Scripcariu
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Diaconu
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Stoian
authors.forename: Cr
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Dragomir
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D004935:Esophageal Diseases / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery*; D004938:Esophageal Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery; D004940:Esophageal Stenosis / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery; D016629:Esophagectomy / Q000379:methods*; D004944:Esophagoplasty; D005260:Female; D017052:Hospital Mortality; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D019060:Minimally Invasive Surgical Procedures; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012383:Romania / Q000453:epidemiology; D016019:Survival Analysis