Esophageal exclusion and bypass for corrosive injury: The lessons learnt

• Egile Nagusiak: Richa Lal (Egilea), Anu Behari (Egilea), Jayanth Reddy (Egilea), Banani Poddar (Egilea)
• Formatua: Liburua
• Argitaratua: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Gaiak: article
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While it is always preferable to excise and replace the diseased esophagus in corrosive injuries, the surgeon may be compelled to exclude and bypass it by a substernal conduit in select situations wherein excision is technically hazardous. This case illustrates the lessons learnt from a potentially...