Jamal-Eddine Hassan, Sukumar Murugan, Al-Sarraf Nael
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Chest Disease Hospital Al-Jabriah, P.O. Box. 718 Kuwait.
Cases J. 2009 May 8;2:7523. doi: 10.1186/1757-1626-2-7523.
Disruption of cervical esophagogastric anastomosis after retrosternal stomach transposition remains a dangerous complication. We report a case of cervical gastric disruption after retrosternal gastric transposition in a 36-year-old man that required sternotomy for reanastomosis. After sternotomy, gastric mobilization was possible, in order to gain sufficient length for a new cervical esophagogastric anastomosis.