Results of video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery for esophageal cancer during the induction period

General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 119-125

  Ninomiya, Itasu ^a   Osugi, Harushi ^b   Fujimura, Takashi ^a   Kayahara, Masato ^a   Takamura, Hiroyuki ^a   Takemura, Masashi ^b   Lee, Shigeru ^b   Nakagawara, Hisatoshi ^a   Nishimura, Genichi ^a   Ohta, Tetsuo ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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

Author keywords

Direction; Esophageal cancer; Learning curve; Supervisor; Thoracoscopic surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATELECTASIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MALE; MORBIDITY; NERVE PARALYSIS; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RECURRENT DISEASE; THORACOSCOPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED;

EID: 40949163494     PISSN: 18636705     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11748-007-0196-5     Document Type: Article

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