Fig. 3

In a 74-year-old male, preoperative CT (A) depicted a stricturing carcinoma of the gastric body (thick arrow). Six days after uncomplicated total gastrectomy with lymphadenectomy and splenectomy, CF (B) visualized normally patent EJS (arrowhead) with a seemingly extraluminal contrast medium accumulation (*) which corresponded to anastomotic recess of the Roux-en-Y EJS at surgical correlation, a finding which potentially mimics leakage if technical details are not known. Corresponding expected postsurgical CT changes including air-filled anastomotic recess (*), non-stapled EJS (arrowheads) with unremarkable perianastomotic fat planes, no abnormal collections in the splenectomy site