Postoperative hiatal hernia after minimally invasive esophagectomy for esophageal cancer.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Minimally invasive esophagectomy (MIE) can reduce various complications compared with conventional thoracotomic esophagectomy. However, several reports suggested that MIE promoted incidence of post-operative hiatal hernia (HH). In current reports, we retrospectively analyzed incidence and risk factors of HH development after MIE.

Methods

A total of 113 patients undergoing MIE (McKeown esophagectomy) at our institute from April 2009 to December 2015 were included in this study. Patients with clinical stage II and III received neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC).

Results

Eleven of 113 patients (9.7%) undergoing MIE developed HH. Four of them were female and the ratio of female among the patient with HH was higher than that among the patient without HH after MIE (3

SUBMITTER: Iwasaki H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7578511 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature