Abstract: Esophageal cancer is a common malignancy of the digestive system, and its incidence rate and total mortality rate are both among the top cancers worldwide, posing a great threat to cancer patients. In recent years, despite the declining incidence, China is still a region with high incidence of esophageal cancer, and the diagnosis and treatment of esophageal cancer cannot be ignored. At present, the treatment of esophageal cancer is still a comprehensive treatment mode mainly based on surgery, and surgical resection is the main means to eradicate esophageal cancer. With the development of surgical techniques, tubular gastric esophagus has become the most commonly used method of esophageal reconstruction, and has obvious advantages over previous total gastric esophagus, but there will still be anastomotic fistula, anastomotic stenosis, gastroesophageal reflux, and other related complications. In order to reduce the incidence of postoperative complications, improve the quality of life in patients, a lot of research has been conducted on the innovation and development of tubular stomach, making tubular stomach technology more mature and practical, at the same time, fluorescence vascular imaging technology, robot-assisted surgery technology, and other related fields of improvement and popularization also provide a new idea for the development of tubular stomach. Comprehensive multidisciplinary development also provides support for the ERAS protocol for esophageal cancer. This paper reviewed the recent research of tubular gastroplasty and its modified techniques, as well as the development and application prospects of other related techniques.

Key words: Esophageal cancer, Modified gastric tube, Anastomotic leakge, Digestive tract reconstruction