Dear Editor, Anterior cervical spine fusion and plate fixation is a valuable procedure for the treatment of cervical spinal injury, spondylitic disease and intervertebral disc diseases. Esophageal perforation is one of the rare but serious complications following anterior cervical spinal surgery. Esophageal injury is usually due to the surgical exposure or the foreign metallic implant which usu...

STUDY DESIGN Multicenter retrospective case series and review of the literature. OBJECTIVE To determine the rate of esophageal perforations following anterior cervical spine surgery. METHODS As part of an AOSpine series on rare complications, a retrospective cohort study was conducted among 21 high-volume surgical centers to identify esophageal perforations following anterior cervical spine...

Introduction: Esophageal cancer is among the most common malignancies. Hospital mortality in the past decade reduced; but its morbidity is still high. Pulmonary complications are the most common complications after esophageal resection. In this study we examined the effect of steroids administration during surgery to reduce postoperative morbidity with a focus on respiratory complications.Mater...

PURPOSE Treatment for esophageal atresia has advanced over several decades due to improvements in surgical techniques and neonatal intensive care. Subsequent to increased survival, postoperative morbidity has become an important issue in this disease. The aim of our study was to analyze our experience regarding the treatment of esophageal atresia. METHODS We reviewed and analyzed the clinical...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to identify perioperative risk factors for postoperative acute kidney injury (AKI) in patients undergoing esophageal cancer surgery. DESIGN A retrospective analysis of the prospectively collected medical data. SETTING A tertiary care university hospital. PARTICIPANTS All consecutive adult patients (n=595) who underwent elective esophageal surgery fo...

esophageal perforation continues to be a difficult diagnostic and management problem. recommendations regarding treatment remain controversial. 17 patients with perforation of the esophagus were retrospectively reviewed at the thoracic surgery unit of imam khomeini hospital between 1981 and 1992. the majority of the injuries involved the thoracic esophagus (10 or 59%), followed by the cervical ...

HYPOTHESIS Prosthetic crural closure does not adversely influence esophageal body motility. In most patients, postoperative increased dysphagia resolves spontaneously during the first months after surgery. DESIGN Prospective randomized trial. We compared patients who underwent laparoscopic Nissen fundoplication with simple sutured hiatal closure and those who underwent laparoscopic Nissen fun...

Subjects: 174 adults who had cardiac surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass. Subjects undergoing off-pump surgery, aged <18 years, or with relative contraindications to the use of the esophageal Doppler probe, such as esophageal disease, were excluded. Subjects were also excluded postoperatively if on admission to intensive care there was excessive bleeding, unstable arrhythmias, a need for intra-...

Although anterior approaches to the cervical spine are popular and safe, they cause some of complications. Esophageal perforation after anterior spinal fusion is a rare but potentially life-threatening complication. We present a rare case of delayed esophageal perforation caused by a cervical screw placed via the anterior approach. A 43-year-old man, who had undergone surgery for complete cord ...