Minimally invasive esophagectomy for esophageal cancer: An updated review

Surgery Today

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 237-244

  Watanabe, Masayuki ^a   Baba, Yoshifumi ^a   Nagai, Yohei ^a   Baba, Hideo ^a  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Esophageal cancer; MIE; Outcome

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; MORBIDITY; OPERATION DURATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SAFETY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL MORTALITY; THORACOSCOPY;

ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; HUMANS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE;

EID: 84878487192     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: 14362813     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00595-012-0300-z     Document Type: Article

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