Robot-assisted thoracoscopic esophagectomy with extensive mediastinal lymphadenectomy: Experience with 114 consecutive patients with intrathoracic esophageal cancer

Diseases of the Esophagus

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 326-332

  Park, S Y ^a   Kim, D J ^a   Yu, W S ^a   Jung, H S ^a  

^a Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Esophageal cancer; Outcome; Robotic surgery

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL BLEEDING; ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; CHYLOTHORAX; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; ESOPHAGEAL SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; ESOPHAGOGASTROSTOMY; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTESTINE INJURY; LARYNGEAL NERVE; LENGTH OF STAY; LONG TERM SURVIVAL; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPERATION DURATION; PATIENT SAFETY; PREOPERATIVE RADIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE PALSY; REOPERATION; RISK FACTOR; ROBOT ASSISTED SURGERY; ROBOT ASSISTED THORACOSCOPIC ESOPHAGECTOMY; STENT; SURGICAL MORTALITY; THORAX; TRACHEA DISEASE; TRACHEA FISTULA; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; ADVERSE EFFECTS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; LYMPH NODE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MEDIASTINUM; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROCEDURES; ROBOTIC SURGICAL PROCEDURE; SOUTH KOREA; THORACOSCOPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MEDIASTINUM; MIDDLE AGED; OPERATIVE TIME; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REPUBLIC OF KOREA; RISK FACTORS; ROBOTIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; THORACOSCOPY;

EID: 84923596645     PISSN: 11208694     EISSN: 14422050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/dote.12335     Document Type: Article

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