Evaluating the donor site after harvest of free jejunum grafts

✍ Scribed by Kiyotaka Uchiyama; Yoshihiro Kimata; Satoshi Ebihara; Takashi Nakatsuka; Kiyonori Harii

• Book ID: 102233251
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 66 KB
• Volume: 24
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1043-3074
• DOI: 10.1002/hed.10061

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Background

Free jejunal grafts are commonly used for reconstruction after surgery for hypopharyngeal and cervical esophageal cancer. However, few reports have addressed postoperative morbidity at the abdominal donor site.

Methods

Preoperative morbidity and postoperative complications were analyzed in 126 patients in whom free jejunal grafts had been harvested from 1992 through 1996.

Results

Although 27 patients had previously undergone abdominal surgery, there was no correlation between previous abdominal surgery and abdominal complications after graft harvest (p > .25). Abdominal complications were not correlated with patient age (p > .25).

Conclusions

Our findings suggest that previous abdominal surgery (except on the ileum) and patient age are not contraindications to free jejunal graft harvest. © 2002 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.