Is minimally invasive esophagectomy beneficial to elderly patients with esophageal cancer?

Surgical Endoscopy

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 925-930

  Li, Jingpei ^a,b   Shen, Yaxing ^a   Tan, Lijie ^a   Feng, Mingxiang ^a   Wang, Hao ^a   Xi, Yong ^a   Wang, Qun ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b GUANGZHOU MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Elderly patients; Esophageal cancer; Esophagectomy; Minimally invasive surgery; Survival

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CHYLOTHORAX; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELAYED GASTRIC EMPTYING; DISEASE SPECIFIC SURVIVAL; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENDER; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART INFARCTION; HISTOLOGY; HOARSENESS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; LONG TERM SURVIVAL; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE ESOPHAGECTOMY; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; MORBIDITY; OPEN ESOPHAGECTOMY; OUTPATIENT CARE; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PLEURA EFFUSION; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURVIVAL TIME; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; VERY ELDERLY; CHINA; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; INCIDENCE; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MORTALITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE; TRENDS;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHINA; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 84924173983     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: 14322218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-014-3753-x     Document Type: Article

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