Priorities of national surgery. Evgeny Illarionovich Zakharov. Stomach repair with small bowel substitutes

The manuscript is devoted to the outstanding Russian surgeon Zakharov E.I.. He first performed gastrojejunoduodenoplasty in 1938 (distal stomach repair with small bowel substitute). Zakharov E.I. developed the method of post-resection stomach repair with jejunum segment interposed between the esophagus and duodenum (esophagojejunoduodenoplasty). Further studies confirmed functional advantage of gastroplasty procedures with preserved duodenal passage.