Chest surgery clinics of North America

In summary, vagotomy plus antrectomy and the Roux-en-Y procedure is based on the following points: (a) patients who have BE show several foregut abnormalities, including incompetent lower esophageal sphincter, impairment in the esophageal c…

Porous diaphragm syndromes are a group of seemingly disparate clinical symptom complexes involving a wide variety of unrelated medical specialties. However, they are linked by a common anatomical feature, a defect in the diaphragm. They usu…

Primary tumors of the diaphragm are rare, and more than half are benign. Diaphragmatic tumors arise from mesenchymal tissue because of their mesodermal origin, and all varieties of these tumors have been reported. An interesting paraphenome…