The management of long-gap esophageal atresia remains challenging with limited consensus
on the definition, evaluation, and surgical approach to treatment. Efforts to preserve the …

… Management of newborns with long-gap esophageal atresia (LGEA) remains a challenge
for pediatric surgeons. Since spontaneous growth of the esophageal segments occurs without …

… Present management of esophageal atresia has enabled the … surgical management of long
gap esophageal atresia without … outbreak of cases of long gap esophageal atresia without …

This study had two purposes. The first was to determine whether the growth procedure would
allow true primary repairs of the most severe end of the esophageal atresia (EA) spectrum …

… Difficulty with feeding, which is a common and serious problem for most patients with long
gap esophageal atresia, was totally eliminated in our patient. After each elongation procedure, …

… From 1988 through 2005, 19 patients with long-gap esophageal atresia received a jejunal
… to confirm the diagnosis of long-gap esophageal atresia. Through a median laparotomy, a …

… Background: Long-gap esophageal atresia (LGEA) may have clinical and syndromic … different
from those of esophageal atresia (EA) that affects shorter segments of the esophagus (non-…

… of the medical records of all patients managed for esophageal atresia (EA)/tracheoesophageal
fistula (… Esophageal atresia was defined as long gap when primary repair was considered …

… esophagus that consists of (1) a multistaged extrathoracic elongation of the proximal esophagus
and (2) a definitive esophageal … in 12 patients with long gap esophageal atresia (EA) …

… A two-center comparative study of gastric pull-up and jejunal interposition for long gap
esophageal atresia. J Pediatr Surg (2015) 50(4):535–9. doi:10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2014.05.026 …