[Surgical treatment of cancer of the esophagus and esophagogastric junction].

Immediate and long-term results of surgical treatment of cancer of the esophagus and esophageal-gastric passage in 103 patients were analyzed. Ninety-nine extirpations of the esophagus with simultaneous isoperistaltic tubic esophagogastroplasty (95) and coloplasty (4), 4 Luis surgeries were performed. Hospital lethality was 4.9%, rate of postoperative complications - 47.6%. 5-year survival after surgery was 32.4+/-5,8%: in cancer of cervical or upper-thoracic part of the esophagus - 0, middle-thoracic part - 24.6+/-7.2%, lower-thoracic part - 56.5+/-11.9%, esophageal-gastric passage - 35.6+/-16.1%. Problems of surgical techniques, indications for transhiatal and transthoracic approaches to the esophagus, schemes of combined treatment are discussed.