Surgical treatment of thoracic esophageal obstruction of neoplastic genesis

: The results of operative treatment of 126 patients with esophageal cancer, localized on different level, were analysed. In 73 of them the thoracic esophagus affection was revealed. Radical operations were performed in 46 and the palliative--in 27 patients. As a rule, one-staged esophagoplasty was done, using stomach and colon. The original method of the gastric transplant lengthening was proposed, permitting to perform one-staged retrosternal esophagoplasty with construction of cervical esophagogastroanastomosis. Complications have occurred in 6 patients.