Complications of Esophagectomy

Surgical Clinics of North America

Volumn 92, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1299-1313

  Raymond, Daniel ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Esophagectomy; Morbidity; Postoperative complication

Indexed keywords

BOTULINUM TOXIN; PROTON PUMP INHIBITOR;

ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ASSISTED VENTILATION; ATELECTASIS; BARRETT ESOPHAGUS; BILE REFLUX; BODY MASS; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; CHYLOTHORAX; COLON INTERPOSITION; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DIAPHRAGM HERNIA; DYSPHAGIA; ESOPHAGOGASTROSTOMY; ESOPHAGUS DYSPLASIA; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; FORCED VITAL CAPACITY; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART INFARCTION; HERNIOPLASTY; HUMAN; INTESTINE GRAFT; KIDNEY FAILURE; LARYNGOSCOPY; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG FUNCTION; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MORBIDITY; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PLEURA EFFUSION; PNEUMONIA; POSTGASTRECTOMY SYNDROME; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ASPIRATION; PYLOROMYOTOMY; PYLOROPLASTY; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE INJURY; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INTUBATION; REVIEW; STOMACH EMPTYING; STOMACH OBSTRUCTION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; THORACOTOMY; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM; VIDEO ASSISTED THORACOSCOPIC SURGERY;

ANASTOMOTIC LEAK; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; ESOPHAGUS; HERNIA, DIAPHRAGMATIC; HUMANS; ISCHEMIA; LARYNGEAL NERVE INJURIES; LUNG DISEASES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 84866865362     PISSN: 00396109     EISSN: 15583171     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.suc.2012.07.007     Document Type: Review

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