Robot-assisted thoracoscopic lymphadenectomy along the left recurrent laryngeal nerve for esophageal squamous cell carcinoma in the prone position: Technical report and short-term outcomes

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1608-1616

  Suda, Koichi ^a   Ishida, Yoshinori ^a   Kawamura, Yuichiro ^a   Inaba, Kazuki ^a   Kanaya, Seiichiro ^b   Teramukai, Satoshi ^c   Satoh, Seiji ^a   Uyama, Ichiro ^a  

^a FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA RED CROSS HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; ESOPHAGUS TUMOR; FEMALE; HOARSENESS; HUMAN; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE; ROBOTICS; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIDEO ASSISTED THORACOSCOPIC SURGERY; VOCAL CORD PARALYSIS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; FEMALE; HOARSENESS; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PRONE POSITION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE; ROBOTICS; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOCAL CORD PARALYSIS;

EID: 84864288813     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: 14322323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-012-1538-8     Document Type: Article

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