Subtotal stomach in esophageal reconstruction surgery achieves an anastomotic leakage rate of less than 1%.
Kazuhiro YoshidaYoshihiro TanakaTakeharu ImaiYuta SatoYuji HatanakaTomonari SuetsuguNaoki OkumuraNobuhisa MatsuhashiTakao TakahashiKazuya YamaguchiPublished in: Annals of gastroenterological surgery (2020)
Reconstruction using SS resulted in an extremely low rate of anastomotic leakage and good QOL postoperatively in patients with EC.