Esophagectomy and Reverse Gastric Tube: Gavriliu I

Step 5: Creation of the gastric tube

A French #38-40 bougie is inserted into the stomach through a distal incision in the greater curvature approximately 2 cm proximal to the pylorus. The stomach is serially stapled and divided longitudinally along the edge of the bougie with repeated applications of the GIA™ instrument.