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01-02-2020 | Endoscopy | Letter to the Editor
The First Case Report of a Carcinoma of the Gastric Cardia (AEG II) After OAGB-MGB
Authors:
Mira Runkel, Michael Pauthner, Norbert Runkel
Published in:
Obesity Surgery
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Issue 2/2020
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Excerpt
The scientific dispute over OAGB-MGB is gaining momentum as supporters fiercely advocate its simplicity, safety, and success and opponents obstinately recall the potential risk of the Billroth II reconstruction for chronic biliary reflux and gastroesophageal cancer. Rutledge himself has performed several thousands of these procedures since 1997 and has never observed such a malignancy [
1] nor has gastric cardia or pouch cancer been published by anyone else [
2]. We herein describe a case of true junctional cancer occurring 2 years after construction of an OAGB-MGB. …