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The Gastric Tube

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“The best esophagus is the native esophagus” [1–3] is an almost universally accepted belief and has spawned a number of techniques designed to salvage the injured oesophagus or to permit an anastomosis where there is inadequate length in an atretic organ.

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The authors thank to Prof. Pediatric Surgery Larry Hadley, Durban, South Africa for his kindness and expertise to review the content, editing and language of the manuscript.

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    Gabriel O. Ionescu MD, PhD, Simona Gavrilescu MD, PhD & Gabriel Aprodu MD, PhD

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    Mike Thomson

  3. Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

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    George W. Holcomb III

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Ionescu, G.O., Gavrilescu, S., Aprodu, G. (2017). The Gastric Tube. In: Till, H., Thomson, M., Foker, J., Holcomb III, G., Khan, K. (eds) Esophageal and Gastric Disorders in Infancy and Childhood. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11202-7_29

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