Background The purpose of this study is to introduce our experience with the Akiyama procedure as a surgical option for treatment esophageal cancer in Mother Theresa Hospital Center Tirana, Albania. Selection suitable site anastomosis after esophagectomy, whether cervical or thoracic key optimal oncological results. goal minimize recurrence patients and avoid complications related surgery. Cont...

Because most surgeons perform an esophagectomy and colonic transposition as the main reconstruction method for patients with esophageal stenosis caused by swallowing corrosive materials, we report 2 cases in which ileocolonic transposition was used to treat such patients. Both patients displayed stenosis in the middle third of the esophagus. Their chief complaint was dysphagia. Ileocolonic tran...

Background: There have been reports on stent-related vascular erosions about patients with benign or malignant stenosis of the esophagus who received endoscopic stent insertion for palliative intention for oral intake. Case presentation: A 61-year-old woman with esophageal cancer located in the middle part of esophagus was treated with esophagectomy. Two years following the surgery, malignan...

Subtotal esophagectomy with retrosternal transposition of the gastric tube to the neck was performed in a 62-year-old patient with squamous cell carcinoma of the proximal third of the esophagus. He developed a salivatory fistula in the early postoperative period that healed spontaneously. Five months later, the patient developed partial stenosis of the esophagogastric anastomosis which required...

an unexpected thoracoscopy and pleurocentesis during gastroscopy A 56-year-old man described 2 weeks of regurgitation of ingested liquids, dyspnea, and chest pain. He had undergone laparoscopic esophagectomy with cervical anastomosis 1 year previously for esophageal adenocarcinoma; this had been complicated by a stricture at the esophagogastric anastomosis that required serial endoscopic dilati...