The contemporary role of minimally invasive esophagectomy in esophageal cancer topical collection on gastrointestinal cancers

Current Oncology Reports

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Mallipeddi, Mohan K ^a   Onaitis, Mark W ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Esophageal cancer; Esophagectomy; Gastrointestinal cancer; Ivor Lewis; McKeown; Minimally invasive; Minimally invasive esophagectomy (MIE); Oncology; Outcomes; Robotic surgery; Transhiatal; Transthoracic

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; HUMAN; MINIMALLY INVASIVE ESOPHAGECTOMY; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; MORBIDITY; QUALITY OF LIFE; SURGEON; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; ESOPHAGUS TUMOR; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; LAPAROSCOPY; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; REVIEW; ROBOTICS;

ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; QUALITY OF LIFE; ROBOTICS;

EID: 84899444370     PISSN: 15233790     EISSN: 15346269     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11912-013-0374-9     Document Type: Article

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