Feasibility of a robot-assisted thoracoscopic lymphadenectomy along the recurrent laryngeal nerves in radical esophagectomy for esophageal squamous carcinoma

Surgical Endoscopy

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1866-1873

  Kim, Dae Joon ^a   Park, Seong Yong ^a   Lee, Seokki ^a   Kim, Hyoung Il ^a   Hyung, Woo Jin ^a  

^a Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Esophageal cancer; Lymphadenectomy; Robotic surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ESOPHAGEAL SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGICAL INSTRUMENT; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MALE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; MORBIDITY; OPERATION DURATION; PATIENT SAFETY; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE PALSY; ROBOT ASSISTED THORACOSCOPIC LYMPHADENECTOMY; ROBOTICS; SURGICAL MORTALITY; THORACOSCOPE; TROCAR; ADJUVANT CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; LYMPH NODE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SECONDARY; SURGERY; THORACOSCOPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; OPERATIVE TIME; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROBOTICS; THORACOSCOPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84903594628     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: 14322218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-013-3406-5     Document Type: Article

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