Oesophageal atresia–tracheoesophageal fistula (EA-TEF) is a common congenital digestive
disease. Patients with EA-TEF face gastrointestinal, surgical, respiratory, otolaryngological …

Purpose With improved long-term survival rates, measuring the quality of surgical care has
gradually shifted from clinical morbidity and mortality to patient-reported outcome measures …

Objectives: To longitudinally evaluate self-reported and proxy-reported health status (HS)
and quality of life (QoL) of school-aged children born with esophageal atresia (EA) …

Abstract Background In 10–15% of children with esophageal atresia (EA) delayed
reconstruction of esophageal atresia (DREA) is necessary due to long-gap EA and/or …

Patients born with esophageal atresia (EA) require advanced reconstructive surgery and risk
long-term digestive and respiratory morbidity. We describe the state of current literature on …

Background Concern exists that patients born with oesophageal atresia (OA) may be at high
risk for Barrett's oesophagus (BO), a known malignant precursor to the development of …

Introduction Pediatric surgeons have yet to reach a consensus whether a gastric sleeve pull-
up or delayed primary anastomosis for the treatment of esophageal atresia (EA), especially …

Introduction As survival rates of infants born with esophageal atresia (EA) have improved
considerably, research interests are shifting from viability to morbidity and longer-term …

Background Anastomotic stricture is a common postoperative complication of oesophageal
atresia±tracheoesophageal fistula (OA/TOF) repair. Acid gastro-oesophageal reflux disease …

Gastric surface mucosal cells are responsible for the uptake and secretion of 99m TcO 4, a
feature that has been used in imaging heterotopic gastric mucosa. We used the same …