Forty-seven patients underwent pharyngoesophageal reconstruction using a free jejunal interposition graft (FJIG) at Duke University Medical Center from 1978 through 1987. There were 30 men and 17 women with ages ranging from 38 to 87 years old (mean age, 64 years). Twenty-one patients (group A) had
Free jejunal graft for hypopharyngeal and esophageal reconstruction
β Scribed by Yasuhiro Shirakawa; Yoshio Naomoto; Kazuhiro Noma; Ryoko Ono; Tetsuji Nobuhisa; Masahiko Kobayashi; Toshiya Fujiwara; Hirofumi Noguchi; Takaomi Ohkawa; Tomoki Yamatsuji; Minoru Haisa; Junji Matsuoka; Mehmet Gunduz; Noriaki Tanaka
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 209 KB
- Volume
- 389
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1435-2451
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