[Contribution of B.A. Petrov to development of methods for surgical treatment of postburn esophageal strictures].

The article in historical aspect presents more than 40-year experience in improvement of methods for surgical treatment of esophagus and stomach burn aftereffects in N.V. Sklifossovsky Research Institute of Emergency Care. Great role in development of this problem of B.A. Petrov is stressed, who, as a follower of S.S. Yudin, has perfected a method of intestinal plastics, developed and applied in practice a technique of retrosternal esophagoplasty from ileocolon and has laid the foundation of reconstructive surgery on an artificial esophagus. The authors autline their own experience of the last two decades: 158 total isoperistaltic retrosternal esophagoplasties from the colon with lethality 3.1%. To present cancer, in 115 patients cicatricised esophagus was removed, lethality being 2.6%. Attention was paid to the physiological aspects of esophagoplasty, especially in the light of long-term results.