Abstract:Patient 1 was a 76-year-old woman with chief complaints of reflux symptoms and anorexia. She had esophageal hiatal hernia associated with stomach cancer. Endoscopic submucosal dissection was considered difficult; thus, distal gastrectomy and esophageal hiatal plication were performed. Patient 2 was a 78-year-old woman with chief complaints of nausea and vomiting. Prolapse of the gastric corpus into the mediastinum was observed. Thus, surgery was performed for passage obstruction treatment. Because reflux sympt… Show more
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