A simplified, improved techniqe for the Collis gastroplasty for dilatable esophageal strictures.

A safe, simple, effective and fast gastrophasty for the dilatable strictured esophagus has proved sound in dogs and feasible and effective in twenty-five patients. Several of the patients who had been operated upon elsewhere had recurrences. Postoperative follow-up studies of the 25 patients operated upon have revealed freedom from substernal pain, dysphagia, aspiration and bleeding in the upper part of the gastrointestinal tract. Encouraged by the success of the surgical techinique in patients with stricture of the esophagus, we have recently applied the same technique in the repair of hiatal hernia without stricture.