“…Total pharyngolaryngo-oesophagectomy is generally accepted for the late stages of postcricoid carcinoma [11], and the many reconstructive procedures suggested include gastric transposition [2,6,19,20], colonic transposition, with a mortality rate of be tween 15 and 20% [9,21,22], and various cervical and chest skin flaps, which require multistage operations [23,24], The most re cent procedure involves a free jejunal inter position graft. This, however, requires spe cial expertise in microvascular techniques and has initially been associated with a high rate of graft failure and morbidity [25], al though recent reports have shown better im mediate results [7], In our series the majority of the recon structions were done by gastric transposi tion.…”