Thoracoscopic esophagectomy with extended lymph node dissection in the left lateral position: Technical feasibility and oncologic outcomes

Diseases of the Esophagus

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 159-167

  Ninomiya, I ^a   Osugi, H ^b   Fujimura, T ^a   Fushida, S ^a   Okamoto, K ^a   Maruzen, S ^a   Oyama, K ^a   Kinoshita, J ^a   Tsukada, T ^a   Kitagawa, H ^a   Takamura, H ^a   Nakagawara, H ^a   Tajima, H ^a   Hayashi, H ^a   Makino, I ^a   Ohta, T ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Esophageal neoplasm; Esophagectomy; Thoracoscopy; Treatment outcome

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; FLUOROURACIL;

ADULT; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ARTICLE; ATELECTASIS; BLEEDING; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CHYLOTHORAX; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INDUCTION CHEMOTHERAPY; LYMPH NODE; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH VESSEL METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPERATION DURATION; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PATIENT POSITIONING; PERITONEUM METASTASIS; PNEUMONIA; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE PALSY; SURVIVAL RATE; THORACOSCOPIC ESOPHAGECTOMY; THORACOSCOPY; TRACHEOTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR GROWTH; VIDEO ASSISTED THORACOSCOPIC SURGERY;

ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASM; ESOPHAGECTOMY; THORACOSCOPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; CARCINOMA, SMALL CELL; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CARCINOSARCOMA; COHORT STUDIES; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT POSITIONING; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED;

EID: 84892974757     PISSN: 11208694     EISSN: 14422050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/dote.12071     Document Type: Article

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