Robot-assisted transhiatal esophagectomy: A 3-year single-center experience

Diseases of the Esophagus

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 159-166

  Dunn, D H ^a   Johnson, E M ^a   Morphew, J A ^a   Dilworth, H P ^b   Krueger, J L ^b   Banerji, N ^b  

^a ABBOTT NORTHWESTERN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Virginia Piper Cancer Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Esophageal cancer; Morbidity; Robotic esophagectomy; Transhiatal

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ANASTOMOTIC STRICTURE; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; ESOPHAGUS DYSPLASIA; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; ESOPHAGUS STENOSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LARYNGEAL NERVE PARESIS; LENGTH OF STAY; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MALE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; MORBIDITY; OPERATION DURATION; PLEURA EFFUSION; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; ROBOTIC TANSHIATAL ESOPHAGECTOMY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CONVERSION TO OPEN SURGERY; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGEAL STENOSIS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPERATIVE TIME; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROBOTICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84872897614     PISSN: 11208694     EISSN: 14422050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-2050.2012.01325.x     Document Type: Article

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