title: Total gastrectomy in gastric conduit cancer.
abstract: We report a very rare case of surgery on gastric conduit cancer. A 67-year-old male patient underwent esophagectomy and intrathoracic esophagogastrostomy for squamous cell carcinoma of the lower thoracic esophagus 27 months ago. Upon follow-up, a gastric carcinoma at the intra-abdominal part of the gastric conduit was found on an esophagogastroduodenoscopy. We performed total gastrectomy and esophagocolonojejunostomy in the manner of Roux-en-Y anastomosis. The postoperative course was not eventful and an esophagogram on the 10th postoperative day showed no leakage or stenosis of the passage. The patient was discharged on the 17th day with no complications.
authors.affiliation: Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea School of Medicine, Korea.
authors.forename: Jae Jun
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Jae Kil
authors.initials: JK
authors.lastname: Park
authors.forename: Young Pil
authors.initials: YP
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Sook Whan
authors.initials: SW
authors.lastname: Sung
authors.forename: Hyung Joo
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Park
authors.forename: Seok In
authors.initials: SI
authors.lastname: Lee