Mechanical stretching and chemical pyloroplasty to prevent delayed gastric emptying after esophageal cancer resection-a meta-analysis and review of the literature.
Henrik NienhüserPatrick HegerNerma CrnovrsaninAnja SchaibleLeila SisicHans F FuchsFelix BerlthPeter Philipp GrimmingerFelix NickelAdrian T BilleterPascal ProbstBeat P Müller-StichThomas SchmidtPublished in: Diseases of the esophagus : official journal of the International Society for Diseases of the Esophagus (2022)
Mechanical stretching of the pylorus, but not injection of botox reduces DGE after esophageal cancer resection. A newly developed consensus definition should be used before the conduction of a large-scale randomized-controlled trial.