A change in clinical practice: A partially stapled cervical esophagogastric anastomosis reduces morbidity and improves functional outcome after esophagectomy for cancer

Diseases of the Esophagus

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 422-429

  Kondra, J ^a   Ong, S R Y ^a   Clifton, J ^a   Evans, K ^a   Finley, R J ^a   Yee, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anastomosis; Complications; Esophageal cancer; Esophagectomy; Stapler

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ARTICLE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CERVICAL ESOPHAGOGASTRIC ANASTOMOSIS; CHI SQUARE TEST; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DYSPHAGIA; ESOPHAGUS ANASTOMOSIS; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; ESOPHAGUS STRICTURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK REDUCTION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STUDENT T TEST; SURGICAL STAPLING; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COHORT STUDIES; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; ESOPHAGOGASTRIC JUNCTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROBABILITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGICAL STAPLING; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 48649085532     PISSN: 11208694     EISSN: 14422050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-2050.2007.00792.x     Document Type: Article

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