Video-assisted thoracoscopic esophagectomy and radical lymph node dissection for esophageal cancer: A series of 75 cases

Surgical Endoscopy and Other Interventional Techniques

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1588-1593

  Benson, Will D ^a   Briscoe, Leslie ^a  

^a AKRON GENERAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Esophageal cancer; Esophagectomy; Lymph node dissection; Thoracoscopic surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMORBIDITY; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG INJURY; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDIASTINUM LYMPH NODE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAFETY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; THORACOSCOPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIDEORECORDING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; LARYNX; LUNG DISEASES; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; MALE; MEDIASTINUM; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0036830310     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: 14322218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-002-9019-z     Document Type: Article

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