Carcinoma of esophagus. A report of seventeen cases.

This report deals with 17 cases of carcinoma of the esophagus, the total number that have been treated at the Veterans Hospital, Louisville, Kentucky, since its opening in April, 1946. It is much too early to judge end results on the living cases; however, the series is representative and, we think, should be added to the growing literature. Several authors have already very well summarized the evolution of surgical management of this disease since Adams and Phemister in the 1938 reported the first successful transthoracic resection and esophagogastrostomy for carcinoma to be performed in this country. The pertinent data in these cases are set forth in Tables I and II.