Esophagectomy using a thoracoscopic approach with an open laparotomic or hand-assisted laparoscopic abdominal stage for esophageal cancer: Analysis of survival and prognostic factors in 315 patients

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 257, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 873-885

  Ichikawa, Hirofumi ^a   Miyata, Go ^a   Miyazaki, Shukichi ^b   Onodera, Ko ^a   Kamei, Takashi ^a   Hoshida, Tohru ^c   Kikuchi, Hiroshi ^a   Kanba, Rikiya ^d   Nakano, Toru ^a   Akaishi, Takashi ^e   Satomi, Susumu ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Iwate Prefectural Chubu Hospital   (Japan)

^c Iwate Prefectural Central Hospital   (Japan)

^d Osaki Citizen Hospital   (Japan)

^e Akaishi Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

esophageal cancer; minimally invasive esophagectomy; prognostic factor; survival; thoracoscopic esophagectomy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVERSION TO OPEN SURGERY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FEMALE; HAND ASSISTED LAPAROSCOPIC ESOPHAGECTOMY; HAND ASSISTED LAPAROSCOPY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OPEN LAPAROTOMIC ESOPHAGECTOMY; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE; THORACOSCOPIC ASSISTED ESOPHAGECTOMY; THORACOSCOPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; CARCINOMA; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HAND-ASSISTED LAPAROSCOPY; HUMANS; INTENTION TO TREAT ANALYSIS; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; THORACOSCOPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84876283702     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e31826c87cd     Document Type: Article

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