A simplified, improved techniqe for the Collis gastroplasty for dilatable esophageal strictures
Demos, J.
Surgery Gynecology and Obstetrics 142(4): 591-592
1976
ISSN/ISBN: 0039-6087 PMID: 1257873 Document Number: 100470
A safe, simple effective and fast gastroplasty for the dilatable strictured esophagus proved sound in dogs and feasible and effective in 25 patients. Several of the patients operated upon elsewhere had recurrences. Postoperative follow-up studies of the 25 patients operated upon revealed freedom from substernal pain, dysphagia, aspiration and bleeding in the upper part of the gastrointestinal tract. Encouraged by the success of the surgical technique in patients with stricture of the esophagus, the same technique was recently applied in the repair of hiatal hernia without stricture.