Abstract:Aberdeen and *Raigrnore Hospital, Inverness, UK Correspondence to: M r A. Munro, 4th Floor, Raigmore Hospital, lnverness IV2 3UJ, UK Fundoplication is performed by most general surgeons using an abdominal approach, except in patients who are suspected before operation of having a shortened oesophagus. Occasionally after commencing the procedure through the abdomen, the surgeon finds that despite mobilizing the lower oesophagus, insufficient length of intra-abdominal oesophagus is available to perform an adequ… Show more
A modification of the technique of transabdominal Collis gastroplasty and Nissen fundoplication which is technically simple and avoids peritoneal contamination by gastric contents is described.
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