Video-assisted esophagectomy for esophageal cancer

Surgery Today

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 206-213

  Shichinohe, Toshiaki ^a   Hirano, Satoshi ^a   Kondo, Satoshi ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Laparoscopic esophagectomy; Thoracoscopic esophagectomy; VATS esophagectomy; Video assisted esophagectomy

Indexed keywords

ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; BLEEDING; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; GASTROSCOPY; HAND ASSISTED THORACOSCOPIC SURGERY; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC IVOR LEWIS ESOPHAGECTOMY; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LAPAROSCOPIC TRANSHIATAL ESOPHAGECTOMY; LAPAROTOMY; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MEDIASTINOSCOPE ASSISTED ESOPHAGECTOMY; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; PATIENT POSITIONING; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; REVIEW; ROBOT ASSISTED THORACOSCOPIC ESOPHAGECTOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACOSCOPY; VIDEO ASSISTED ESOPHAGECTOMY; VOCAL CORD PARALYSIS;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; ROBOTICS; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; THORACOSCOPY; VIDEO-ASSISTED SURGERY;

EID: 40149088286     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: 14362813     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00595-007-3606-5     Document Type: Review

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