Significance of Thoracoscopy-Assisted Surgery with a Minithoracotomy and Hand-Assisted Laparoscopic Surgery for Esophageal Cancer: The Experience of a Single Surgeon

Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1939-1951

  Kunisaki, Chikara ^a   Kosaka, Takashi ^a   Ono, Hidetaka A ^a   Oshima, Takashi ^a   Fujii, Shoichi ^a   Takagawa, Ryo ^b   Kimura, Jun ^b   Tokuhisa, Motohiko ^b   Izumisawa, Yusuke ^b   Makino, Hirochika ^b   Akiyama, Hirotoshi ^b   Endo, Itaru ^b  

^a YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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

Author keywords

Esophageal cancer; Minimally invasive surgery; Surgical learning curve; Thoracoscopic surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; ESOPHAGUS TUMOR; FEMALE; HAND ASSISTED LAPAROSCOPY; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LEARNING CURVE; LENGTH OF STAY; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MALE; METASTASIS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; STATISTICS; THORACOSCOPY; THORACOTOMY; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ADULT; AGED; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; FEMALE; HAND-ASSISTED LAPAROSCOPY; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LEARNING CURVE; LENGTH OF STAY; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THORACOSCOPY; THORACOTOMY; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 80255122638     PISSN: 1091255X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11605-011-1664-x     Document Type: Article

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