Gastro Medical News about Esophagomyotomy

Most Viewed Abstracts

1. Report Shows Shift in Starting Salaries for Physicians

2. Use of Antiemetic Agents in Acute Gastroenteritis

3. 2008 Exclusive Survey—Earnings: Good news for primary care income

4. A randomised phase III study on capecitabine, oxaliplatin and bevacizumab with or without cetuximab in first-line advanced colorectal cancer, the CAIRO2 study of the Dutch Colorectal Cancer Group (DCCG). An interim analysis of toxicity

5. Medicare pay-for-reporting effort draws fire from frustrated doctors

Your Article Summary

See Latest Articles

(Click the title below to leave the MDLinx Network and go to the Journal's Website)

The Risk of Esophageal Resection After Esophagomyotomy for Achalasia
Annals of Thoracic Surgery, 04/22/09

Eldaif SM et al. - The degree of esophageal dilatation associated with achalasia does not influence the success of an esophagomyotomy. Of the entire patient population in this study, only 6 patients required an esophagectomy. The majority of patients with the most severely dilated esophagus did not require an esophagectomy. Esophagomyotomy should be the first treatment option for patients with achalasia no matter what the degree of esophageal dilatation.

<< Previous
Surgical resection of esophageal gastrointestinal stromal tumors

Next >>
Fatal Epstein-Barr Virus Primo Infection in a 25-Year-Old Man...