Postoperative recurrent laryngeal nerve palsy is associated with pneumonia in minimally invasive esophagectomy for esophageal cancer

Surgical Endoscopy

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2021, Pages 837-844

  Oshikiri, Taro ^a   Takiguchi, Gosuke ^a   Hasegawa, Hiroshi ^a   Yamamoto, Masashi ^a   Kanaji, Shingo ^a   Yamashita, Kimihiro ^a   Matsuda, Takeru ^a   Nakamura, Tetsu ^a   Suzuki, Satoshi ^a   Kakeji, Yoshihiro ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Minimally invasive esophagectomy (MIE); Pneumonia; Recurrent laryngeal nerve (RLN) palsy; Thoracoscopic esophagectomy in the prone position (TEP)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RISK; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; OPERATION DURATION; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRONE POSITION; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE PALSY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SARCOPENIA; THORACOSCOPY; TUMOR DEPTH; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; ADVERSE EVENT; COMPLICATION; ESOPHAGUS TUMOR; PATHOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE; VERY ELDERLY; VOCAL CORD PARALYSIS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VOCAL CORD PARALYSIS;

EID: 85079607187     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: 14322218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-020-07455-1     Document Type: Article

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