Africa: Colopharyngoplasty For Intractable Caustic Pharyngoesophageal Strictures In An ...

Africa: Colopharyngoplasty For Intractable Caustic Pharyngoesophageal Strictures In An Indigenous African Community – Adverse Impact Of Concomitant Tracheostomy On Outcome Mark Tettey, Frank Edwin, Ernest Aniteye, Martin Tamatey, Kow Entsua-Mensah, Ernest Ofosu-Appiah, and Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng, 2011   Objective: Surgical management of caustic strictures of the upper digestive tract poses difficult challenges. This is because reconstruction above the cricopharyngeal junction interferes...

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