“…Preparations were evaluated in light of the parameters developed by Garcia et al [11] Tissue samples prepared as paraffin blocks were stained with hematoxylin-eosin and examined under an Olympus CX 41 light microscope by a pathologist for presence of inflammatory cells, neovascularization, fibroblast presence, fibrosis, ischemic necrosis, continuity of the muscular layer, inflammatory infiltration in the muscular layer, and local inflammatory response (neutrophil, lymphocyte, histiocyte, and giant cell) over the anastomotic area.…”