Abstract
For the purpose of esophageal anastomosis, we have produced a joining tube by way of the soluble material which was cutgut. In conformity with the basic studies of animals, we applied this method on clinical cases.
Our joining tube remained just as it is, in seventh or tenth days postoperatively at the position of anastomosis, but for tenth or fourteenth days it was transformed and moved to the lower intestine, and finally melted away.
We believe that our method is very successful, as that is never to occur the suture failure at the anastomosed segment of the esophagus, therefore oral administration is possible from the first or the second postoperatively without any anxiety.
We feel that our operative technique is most simple and trustworthy.
