CASE REPORT   

Chirurgia 2018 June;31(3):116-9

DOI: 10.23736/S0394-9508.17.04759-3

Copyright © 2017 EDIZIONI MINERVA MEDICA

language: English

Esophagoileostomy as an uncommon complication after total gastrectomy for gastric cancer

Haldun KAR ¹ ✉, Necat CIN ¹, Cengiz TAVUSBAY ¹, Yasin PEKER ¹, Fatih ASLAN ², Onur DÜLGEROĞLU ¹, Fatma A. Tatar ¹

¹ Department of General Surgery, Katip Celebi University, Ataturk Training and Research Hospital, Izmir, Turkey; ² Department of Gastroenterology, Katip Celebi University, Ataturk Training and Research Hospital, Izmir, Turkey

Gastric cancer is the fourth most common type of cancer. Curative treatments of gastric cancer are gastrectomy and lymphadenectomy. Esophagojejunal anastomotic leakage is one of the most serious complications that increase morbidity and mortality after total gastrectomy. The surgical error of anastomosing the esophagus to the ileum instead of the jejunum is uncommon, and to the best of our knowledge, our report is the first clinical case in the literature. Here, we present a patient with esophagoileostomy complicated with leakage after total gastrectomy.

KEY WORDS: Stomach neoplasms - Gastrectomy - Postoperative complications - Anastomotic leak