我院自1970年至1981年9月底共进行794例食管癌切除术,术后发生乳糜胸8例,同期内556例贲门癌切除术中无一例发生乳糜胸。现总结如下。一、本组病例全部为中,晚期食管中段癌,病变较长,外侵较重和周围组织有明显的粘连。全组病例均作了食管部分切除,食管、胃弓上吻合术。二、临床表现:本组病例中有7例术后第二 In our hospital from the end of 1970 to the end of September 1981, a total of 794 cases of esophageal cancer resection, postoperative chylothorax in 8 cases, during the same period in 556 cases of cardiac cancer resection no case of chylothorax. The summary is as follows. First, all patients in this group were middle and advanced esophageal cancers with long lesions, severe external invasion, and obvious adhesions in surrounding tissues. The entire group of patients underwent partial resection of the esophagus and anastomosis of the esophagus and stomach. Second, the clinical manifestations: 7 cases in this group of patients after the second