Esophagectomy without thoracotomy: 25 years of experience over 750 patients

Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery

Volumn 394, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 611-616

  Yannopoulos, Panagiotis ^a   Theodoridis, Panagiotis ^a   Manes, Konstantinos ^a,b  

^a ATHENS MEDICAL CENTER   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Esophageal cancer; Esophagus; Transhiatal esophagectomy (THE)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ARTICLE; ATELECTASIS; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HEART INFARCTION; HEMOPERITONEUM; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PLEURA EFFUSION; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE PALSY; SPLEEN INJURY; STOMACH TUBE; SURGICAL MORTALITY; THORACOTOMY; TRACHEA INJURY; WOUND INFECTION;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; CARCINOMA IN SITU; CAUSE OF DEATH; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 67349145246     PISSN: 14352443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00423-009-0488-6     Document Type: Article

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