[Reflux esophagitis: operative procedures in children: gastropexy (author's transl)].

During the past 15 years, 165 children with reflux disease, following mobilization of the esophagocardiasphere, were treated with a hiatal plastic operation, a semicircular esophagofundofixatio, and gastropexy. Among 140 children who were reexamined one or more times, 131 exhibited normal clinical, radiologic, and, in part, endoscopic findings up to 15 years after the operation. Fifteen percent of the children had peptic esophagostenosis, which was healed through extramucous longitudinal esophagotomy, antireflux plastic surgery, and six additional bougienage treatments.