Abstract
During the years 1961 through 1974, 82 patients with Carcinoma of cervical esophagus were treated primarily at the Cancer Institute Hospital.(1) 55 patients were treated mainly by external radiation therapy alone, and its five-year crude survival rate was 10.9%.(2) 15 patients were treated by preoperative irradiation (4000 R) and radical surgery, nine of these still survived and lived well for many months postoperatively. It was clear from these data that the most effective treatment method was the combined therapy of radiation and surgery.(3) 32 cases of cervical esophagus were reconstructed by the various types of skin flaps;D-P flap (12 patients), lining antenior chest flap (10 patients), lining D-P flap (6 patients) and local skin flaps (4 patients). The operative techniques of reconstruction were discussed.
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