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Chapter and Conference Paper
Gastric replacement
In the past, it was not uncommon to perform esophageal resection for peptic esophagitis. Today, however, thanks not only to widespread use of modern dilatation techniques but also to surgical procedures such a...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Are the histochemical and immuno-cyto-chemical criteria useful?
Columnar epithelium-lined esophagus, cahed Barrett’s esophagus is a comphcation of gastroesophageal reflux (GER) in 20% of cases. Columnar metaplasic mucosa is probably more frequent if hmited types of Barrett...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Recurrences with different techniques
Assessing the rate of recurrence of gastroesophageal reflux (GER) after surgical treatment as a function of the technique used is difficult for various reasons [6, 9]. Preoperative and postoperative investigat...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Degeneration of caustic stenosis
Because there is a risk of develo** squamous carcinoma in a caustic strictured esophagus, resectional surgery would theoretically be preferable to bypass surgery. However, resectional surgery carries a highe...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Transit with Technetium-99 enables to detect motility disorders unnoticed by usual means
Much of the work with esophageal transit has been undertaken using radionuclide labelled liquids with the patient swallowing the liquid while lying in the supine position. We have used a different technique, w...