Self-Expanding Metal Stents Versus Endoscopic Vacuum Therapy in Anastomotic Leak Treatment After Oncologic Gastroesophageal Surgery.

Felix BerlthMarc BludauPatrick Sven PlumTill HerboldHildegard ChristHakan AlakusRobert KleinertChristiane Josephine BrunsArnulf Heinrich HölscherSeung-Hun Chon

Published in: Journal of gastrointestinal surgery : official journal of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract (2018)

SEMS and EVT show comparable results for anastomotic leak management after oncologic gastroesophageal surgery. No superior outcome could be found for either one of the two treatments options.

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