Video-assisted thoracoscopic esophagectomy for esophageal cancer

Surgical Endoscopy

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 218-223

  Kawahara, K ^a   Maekawa, T ^a   Okabayashi, K ^a   Hideshima, T ^a   Shiraishi, T ^a   Yoshinaga, Y ^a   Shirakusa, T ^a  

^a FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Esophageal cancer; Thoracoscopic esophagectomy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHYLOTHORAX; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE PALSY; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACOSCOPY; TRACHEOTOMY; VIDEORECORDING;

BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; ENDOSCOPY; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; THORACOSCOPY; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 0032962247     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004649900948     Document Type: Article

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