Experience with minimally invasive esophagectomy

Surgical Endoscopy and Other Interventional Techniques

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 298-301

  Collins, G ^a   Johnson, E ^a   Kroshus, T ^a   Ganz, R ^a   Batts, K ^a   Seng, J ^a   Nwaneri, O ^a   Dunn, D ^a  

^a Virginia Piper Cancer Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Esophagectomy; Laparoscopic surgery; Minimally invasive esophagectomy; Thoracoscopic surgery

Indexed keywords

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ANASTOMOSIS; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BLEEDING; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER INVASION; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER STAGING; DYSPLASIA; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; EVALUATION; EXPERIENCE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OPERATION DURATION; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOTHERAPY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SURGICAL MORTALITY;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; ESOPHAGEAL DISEASES; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; LAPAROSCOPY; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 31144446305     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: 14322218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-005-0093-x     Document Type: Review

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