[Comparative analysis of manual and mechanical sutures in the surgery of neoplasms of the esophagus and the cardia].

The authors analyse 50 sutures by hand and 50 by stapling device in oesophagocardial surgery, and compare them as to time of performance, number and quality of complications and influence on the protraction of stay in hospital after operation. The conclusions indicate the sutures by device as the most reliable and safe, susceptible to supplant, although not totally, the techniques by hand.