Therapy of anastomotic leak and its complications after extirpation of the oesophagus

Introduction: The incidence of the oesophago-gastric anastomotic leak on the neck region is about 2–25% percent in the literature. Generally it can close spontaneously without any treatment, but sometimes the long standing inflammation at anastomosis can make the leakage hardly heal, if persistent for a long time, strictures will eventually occur. Both situations will need some interventions, like operation or stent implantation. Patients and Method: During the period 2000 to 2004, twenty-six patients required interventions because of anastomotic leak and stricture. Two patients were treated by stent implantatio…