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Salvage Esophagectomy

Surgical Clinics of North America, 2021
Salvage esophagectomy is an option for patients with recurrent or persistent esophageal cancer after definitive chemoradiation therapy or those who undergo active surveillance after induction chemoradiation therapy. Salvage resection is associated with higher rates of morbidity compared with planned esophagectomy but offers patients with locally ...
Romulo, Fajardo   +3 more
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Anesthesia for Esophagectomy

Anesthesiology Clinics, 2015
Esophagectomy is a high-risk operation with significant perioperative morbidity and mortality. Attention to detail in many areas of perioperative management should lead to an aggregation of marginal gains and improvement in postoperative outcome. This review addresses preoperative assessment and patient selection, perioperative care (focusing on ...
Adam Carney, M. Dickinson
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ESOPHAGECTOMY FOR CANCER

Surgical Clinics of North America, 1997
We are faced with the challenge of treating, palliating, or curing esophageal cancer, considered by some to be the most insidious of cancers. This article acquaints the reader with historic milestones regarding resection of esophageal cancer, preoperative evaluation and preparation, and the various techniques currently being used to perform ...
Joseph I. Miller, Robert B. Lee
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Esophagectomy in the septuagenarian

The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, 1993
As the population continues to age, older patients are being referred for thoracic surgical procedures with increasing frequency. From 1985 through 1992, 38 patients (32 men, 6 women) 70 years of age or older underwent esophagectomy for primary esophageal carcinoma.
Kenneth A. Kesler   +7 more
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Transhiatal esophagectomy

The American Journal of Surgery, 1987
Thirty-six patients underwent resection of the thoracic esophagus without a thoracotomy for the management of cancer of the cervical esophagus (2 patients), middle third and lower third of the esophagus (4 patients and 23 patients, respectively), and the gastroesophageal junction (17 patients).
J J, Terz   +3 more
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Thoracoscopic esophagectomy: Are there benefits?

Seminars in Surgical Oncology, 1997
Between 1991 and 1995, 18 patients affected by a resectable intramural tumor of the esophagus underwent esophagectomy with thoracoscopic dissection of the esophagus. All patients had a relative contraindication to transthoracic esophagectomy with radical lymphadenectomy.
A. Peracchia   +4 more
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TRANSHIATAL ESOPHAGECTOMY

Chest Surgery Clinics of North America, 1995
Transhiatal esophagectomy (THE) with cervical esophogastric anastomosis avoids thoracotomy and the potential for sepsis from an intrathoracic anastomotic leak. Knowledge of anatomy, careful attention to details of the operation, and good judgment toward patient selection will allow THE to be a valuable tool in the surgical palliation of esophageal ...
J B, Zwischenberger, A B, Sankar
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