[Surgical treatment of distal esophageal perforation not due to a malignancy: results in 11 patients, University Medical Center Utrecht, 1994-1998].

Primary repair resulted in 7/7 survival. The median period of hospital stay was 24 days (range: 10-62), and the median stay on the ICU was 14 days (range: 0-21). Four patients underwent reoperation. Four patients with primary repair presented no functional complaints, 1 had reflux complaints and 2 dysphagia. Two out of four within other surgery survived the perforation.