Learning curve of video-assisted thoracoscopic esophagectomy and extensive lymphadenectomy for squamous cell cancer of the thoracic esophagus and results

Surgical Endoscopy and Other Interventional Techniques

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 515-519

  Osugi, H ^a   Takemura, M ^a   Higashino, M ^a   Takada, N ^a   Lee, S ^a   Ueno, M ^a   Tanaka, Y ^a   Fukuhara, K ^a   Hashimoto, Y ^a   Fujiwara, Y ^a   Kinoshita, H ^a  

^a OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Esophageal cancer; Esophagectomy; Learning curve; Lymph node dissection; Postoperative pulmonary infection; Thoracoscopic surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RISK; LUNG INFECTION; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAFETY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACOSCOPY; THORACOTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TROCAR;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED;

EID: 0037334735     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: 14322218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-002-9075-4     Document Type: Article

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