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In the Department of Thoracic Surgery, City Hospital, Nottingham, we use total fundoplication gastroplasty routinely in the management of patients with benign peptic strictures who are unresponsive to medical treatment. This is an analysis of our results between 1983 and 1987. Fifty-six patients are included. There was no operative mortality. An overall good result was achieved in 83.9% of the patients. The results were better earlier in the disease (86.7% in grade II and 90.3% in grade I) than later (60% in grade III). We believe that conservative surgery should not be unduly delayed once medical management has failed. We now reserve resection for patients with fibrotic undilatable strictures and failures of conservative surgery.
F D Beggs, and
F D Salama, and
K R Knowles
July 1981,
Thorax,
F D Beggs, and
F D Salama, and
K R Knowles
March 1981,
Canadian journal of surgery. Journal canadien de chirurgie,
F D Beggs, and
F D Salama, and
K R Knowles
January 1973,
Scandinavian journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery,
F D Beggs, and
F D Salama, and
K R Knowles
January 1985,
The Annals of thoracic surgery,
F D Beggs, and
F D Salama, and
K R Knowles
January 1987,
Gut,
F D Beggs, and
F D Salama, and
K R Knowles
November 1990,
Age and ageing,
F D Beggs, and
F D Salama, and
K R Knowles
February 1992,
The Australian and New Zealand journal of surgery,
F D Beggs, and
F D Salama, and
K R Knowles
June 1989,
Gut,
F D Beggs, and
F D Salama, and
K R Knowles
September 1961,
The Medical journal of Australia,
