Internal medicine

Retrospective cohort study

Esophagectomy

Jejunostomy

Parenteral nutrition

Complication

Cancer

Engineering

Surgery

Esophageal cancer

Leak

Enteral administration

Catheter

Malnutrition

Medicine

Anastomosis

Environmental engineering

The American Journal of Surgery

Patients undergoing esophagectomy for cancer usually deal with malnourishment which increases postoperative morbimortality. The objective of this paper is to analyze the nutritional benefits of feeding jejunostomy (FJ) for early postoperative enteral nutrition (EN) and directly-related complications.

Feeding Jejunostomy after esophagectomy cannot be routinely recommended. Analysis of nutritional benefits and catheter-related complications