Preoperative Laparoscopic Ligation of the Left Gastric Vessels in Preparation for Esophagectomy

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 81, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 2318-2320

  Nguyen, Ninh T ^a   Longoria, Mario ^a   Sabio, Allen ^a   Chalifoux, Sara ^a   Lee, John ^a   Chang, Ken ^a   Wilson, Samuel E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPY; LIGATION; MALE; MORBIDITY; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; FEMALE; GASTRIC FUNDUS; GASTROEPIPLOIC ARTERY; GASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMORS; HUMANS; ISCHEMIA; LAPAROSCOPY; LIGATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STOMACH;

EID: 33646852784     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2005.05.033     Document Type: Article

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