The anatomical basis for gastric mobilization in total oesophagectomy

Following the injection of suitable media, the arterial tree of 22 post‐mortem human stomachs was studied by angiography, or corrosion and micro‐dissection. In stomachs infused exclusively by the right gastroepiploic artery, i.e. following ligation of all other gastric vessels on the stomach wall, both methods produced good fundal filling, while demonstrating consistently poor filling of a strip of stomach wall along the lesser curve.