[One-stage retrosternal colonic esophagoplasty in treatment of patients with scar burn stricture of esophagus].

Esophagoplasty was done in 23 patients an average of 10.4±2.3 months after chemical burn of esophagus. It was necessary to perform 29 corrective operations in 18 cases for training to one-stage plastic surgery such as gastrostomy, resection of stomach, retrocolic gastrojejunostomy on short loop. One-stage esophagoplasty was done in 21 of 23 cases. Functionally the most unusable anastomosis was cervical esophageal-intestinal anastomosis side-to-side. The number of complications after esophagocoloplasty by using of right flank was less than after using of left flank (39.92% vs. 50% respectively).