Gastric pull-up after total pharyngolaryngectomy

ABSTRACT

In this study, 50 patients with hypopharyngeal carcinoma underwent gastric pull-up following total laryngopharyngectomy. The postoperative mortality was 10% and the postoperative morbidity was mainly due to pleural injury, hemorrhage, minor fistulae and mediastinitis. It was found that fistulae occurred in 16% of the cases, hemorrhage in 4% and abdominal wound dehiscence in 4%. The perioperative mortality was 10% in the cases