Esophagectomy via left thoracotomy for esophageal cancer with situs inversus totalis: Report of a case

Surgery Today

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1044-1047

  Mimae, Takahiro ^a   Nozaki, Isao ^a   Kurita, Akira ^a   Takashima, Shigemitsu ^a  

^a NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION SHIKOKU CANCER CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Esophageal cancer; Left thoracotomy; Situs inversus totalis

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; FLUOROURACIL;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADULT; AORTA ARCH; ARTICLE; BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEXTROCARDIA; DYSPHAGIA; ESOPHAGUS; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; JAPANESE; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MALE; MEDIASTINUM LYMPH NODE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; SITUS INVERSUS; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACOTOMY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SITUS INVERSUS; STOMACH; THORACOTOMY;

EID: 55149088201     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: 14362813     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00595-008-3770-2     Document Type: Article

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