[Diagnosis and treatment of esophageal leyomyoma].

Radical operations for benign esophageal leyomyoma were performed in 50 patients in 1976-2006 in the clinic. Highly informative roentgenologic, endoscopic and ultrasonographic (including intraesophageal) methods were applied in the disease diagnosis, permitting to establish the diagnosis, as a rule, accurately before the operation. The diagnosis was verified definitely, basing on intraoperative revision data and the results of express-histologic investigation of the tumor excised.

[Surgical treatment of patients suffering esophageal cancer and stomach cancer spreading to the esophagus using abdominocervical access].

Radical operative interventions using abdominocervical access were performed in 145 patients for esophageal and gastroesophageal cancer. Of them in 99 (68.3%) patients isoperistaltic esophagoplasty was performed: in 54 (54.