Anastomotic strictures and delayed gastric emptying after esophagectomy: incidence, risk factors and management.

After esophagectomy, early anastomotic strictures (within 1 year) and early delayed gastric emptying (within 3 months) are usually benign and respond to dilatation, however, patients presenting later with tumor-related obstruction are unlikely to respond to anastsomotic or pyloric Dilatation and should be stented.