Advantages of the prone position for minimally invasive esophagectomy in comparison to the left decubitus position: better oxygenation after minimally invasive esophagectomy

Surgery Today

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 819-825

  Tanaka, Eiji ^a   Okabe, Hiroshi ^a   Kinjo, Yousuke ^a   Tsunoda, Shigeru ^a   Obama, Kazutaka ^a   Hisamori, Shigeo ^a   Sakai, Yoshiharu ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Esophageal cancer; Minimally invasive surgery; Prone position

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ARTERIAL OXYGEN TENSION; ARTICLE; ATELECTASIS; BODY POSITION; BODY POSTURE; CHYLOTHORAX; COUGHING; DECUBITUS POSITION; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; ILEUS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LENGTH OF STAY; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; OPERATION DURATION; OXYGEN BREATHING; OXYGENATION; PATIENT POSITIONING; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PULMONARY ASPIRATION; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE PALSY; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL INFECTION; THORAX DRAINAGE; ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; BLOOD; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; EVALUATION STUDY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROCEDURES; RESPIRATORY INSUFFICIENCY; THORACOSCOPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY;

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; OXYGEN;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOMARKERS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OXYGEN; PATIENT POSITIONING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PRONE POSITION; RESPIRATORY INSUFFICIENCY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THORACOSCOPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84930863952     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: 14362813     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00595-014-1061-7     Document Type: Article

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