“…The risk factors for the development of hiatal hernia include intraperitoneal pressure exceeding thoracic pressure and distension of the esophageal hiatus [1, 4, 5, 7, 10]. Postoperative hiatal hernias occur more often after minimally invasive (2.7–26%) or robotic (up to 19.4%) esophagectomy than after conventional procedures because of the surgical technique [1, 3, 6, 7, 9]. In both presented cases, the displaced organ was the transverse colon.…”