[Performance of restoration surgeries in postburn stenosis of the esophagus and stomach].

The thirty-years experience of treatment of 987 patients with postburn stenosis of the gut upper parts was summarized. Of the total amount of restorational operations performed in 431 patients there were: esophagoplasty using colon--in 313 (72.62%), small intestine--in 26 (6.04%), stomach--in 66 (15.32%), segment of colon and ileum on the vascular pedicle--in 10 (2.31%), autotransplantation of jejunal segment--in 2 (0.47%), esophagocardioplasty--in 5 (1.15%), plasty with application of local tissues--in 9 (2.09%). Total mortality had constituted 6.96%, but during last 12 years it had subsided down to 1.91% due to perfection of the operations technique performed, new procedures introduction, the anesthesiological support improvement, wide usage of prophylactic measures for possibly occurring complications.