Colon Interposition After Esophagectomy With Extended Lymphadenectomy for Esophageal Cancer Shinji Mine, MD, Harushi Udagawa, MD, PhD, Kenji Tsutsumi, MD, PhD, Yoshihiro Kinoshita, MD, PhD, Masaki Ueno, MD, PhD, Kazuhisa Ehara, MD, Syusuke Haruta, MD The Annals of Thoracic Surgery Volume 88, Issue 5, Pages 1647-1653 (November 2009) DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2009.05.081 Copyright © 2009 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 1 (A) The continuous arrowed line shows the cut end of the mesenterium in preparing ileocolon graft. If the length of graft is not adequate, we cut the right colic vessels at the root (dotted line). (B) The diagram shows the reconstruction form using the ileocolon graft in Billroth 2 type. (RCA = right colic artery; ICA = ileocolic artery.) The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2009 88, 1647-1653DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2009.05.081) Copyright © 2009 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 2 Survival curve. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2009 88, 1647-1653DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2009.05.081) Copyright © 2009 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions