The Mini-Invasive Surgical Treatment of the Short Esophagus

Charles J. Filipi, J. K. Champion, B. McKernan, L. Swanstrom, D. K. Deeik, Z. Howe, R.J. Fitzgibbons, Jr.

Product Details
Product ID: ACS-2071
Year Produced: 1998
Length: 8 min.


The short esophagus must be definitively treated at surgery or the feared slipped Nissen fundoplication will result. Two mini-inva-sive techniqes have been developed to lengthen esophagi. The purpose of this video is to demonstrate a combined laparoscopic thoracoscopic lengthening procedure and a laparoscopic stapling procedure for short esophagus.