Transthoracic esophagectomy
Efficacy comparison of transcervical video assisted mediastinoscopic lymphadenectomy combined with left transthoracic esophagectomy versus right transthoracic esophagectomy for esophageal cancer treatment
... include transthoracic and trans- hiatal esophageal resections [5, ...used transthoracic esophagectomy tech- niques [5, 7, ...left transthoracic approach allows for less incision, less trauma, ...
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Cumulative scores based on plasma D-dimer and serum albumin levels predict survival in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma patients treated with transthoracic esophagectomy
... went transthoracic esophagectomy between Decem- ber 2004 and December 2010 in Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, China were analyzed retro- ...
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Serratus anterior plane block for hybrid transthoracic esophagectomy: a pilot study
... Optimized postoperative pain relief allows early patient’s mobilization and respiratory physiotherapy and is a pre- requisite for enhanced recovery after major thoracic surgery. However, optimal analgesia management ...
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Robot assisted minimally invasive thoraco laparoscopic esophagectomy versus open transthoracic esophagectomy for resectable esophageal cancer, a randomized controlled trial (ROBOT trial)
... intent. Transthoracic esophagectomy is the preferred surgical approach worldwide allowing for en-bloc resection of the tumor with the surrounding lymph ...the transthoracic approach is high (50 to ...
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Robotic transthoracic esophagectomy
... The GLOBOCAN 2008 cancer fact sheet described esophageal cancer as the eighth most common cancer worldwide. There were 482,300 new cases of esophageal cancer with 406,800 estimated deaths worldwide in year 2008 [1]. For ...
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Effect of Neoadjuvant Chemoradiotherapy on Health-Related Quality of Life in Esophageal or Junctional Cancer: Results From the Randomized CROSS Trial
... a transthoracic esophagectomy with two-field lymphadenectomy was ...a transthoracic esophagectomy with two- fi eld lymphadenectomy or a transhiatal esophagectomy with upper abdominal and ...
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Transhiatal esophagectomy in the profoundly obese: implications and experience
... IV transthoracic hiatal hernia repair in 1952, many authors have argued that a transthoracic approach to the distal esoph- agus and esophagogastric junction for antireflux surgery is superior to a ...
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Comparison of thoracolaparoscopic esophagectomy with cervical anastomosis with McKeown esophagectomy for middle esophageal cancer
... The surgery time of TE was significantly longer than that of the ME group both in overall and thoracic oper- ation. This result was consistent with several previous studies [17, 18]. But Sundaram et al. [19] reported ...
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Recurrent Barrett's esophagus and adenocarcinoma after esophagectomy
... Open transthoracic esophagectomy (Ivor Lewis proce- dure) with pyloroplasty was performed in most patients (39/45) including the patients diagnosed with recurrent Barrett's ...
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Right versus left transthoracic approach for lymph node-negative esophageal squamous cell carcinoma
... three-incision transthoracic esophagectomy with three-field lymph node dissection would depend on the patient’s condition and the surgeon’s individual prefer- ence ...right transthoracic approaches ...
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Mediastinoscopy assisted esophagectomy for T2 middle and lower thoracic esophageal squamous cell carcinoma patients
... mortality of transthoracic esophagectomy was about 2–3% [15]. It was reported that more than one-third patients who underwent transthoracic esophagectomy had peri- operative complication [23]. ...
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Distribution of lymph node metastases in esophageal carcinoma [TIGER study]: Study protocol of a multinational observational study
... A large observational study could identify lymph node stations that should be resected in relation to tumor characteristics and may clarify if the same surgical strat- egy is justified in patients with and without ...
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Long term survival from adenocarcinoma of the esophagus after transthoracic and transhiatal esophagectomy
... extended transthoracic esophagectomy is superior to that of limited transhiatal esophagectomy when a mod- erate number of lymph nodes are present (1–8 involved notes), but the survival rates are ...
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The Role of Biphasic Shocks for Transthoracic Cardioversion of Atrial Fibrillation
... The modern generation of transthoracic defibrillators now employ impedance compensated biphasic waveforms. These new devices are superior to those with monophasic waveforms and practice is currently switching to ...
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PERCUTANEOUS TRANSTHORACIC BIOPSY USING TRU-CUT NEEDLE
... Percutaneous transthoracic needle biopsy is the procedure which is most likely to establish either a definitive diagnosis or an accurate description of the disease ...
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Original Article Comparison of long-term outcomes of minimally invasive esophagectomy and open esophagectomy for esophageal squamous cell carcinoma
... Although the difference in overall survival and disease-free survival did not reach statistical significance, overall survival and disease-free survival rates tended to be higher in the MIE group, indicating that ...
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Usefulness and limitations of transthoracic echocardiography in heart transplantation recipients
... Transthoracic Doppler echocardiography is a primary non-invasive modality for investigation of cardiac trans- plant recipients. It is a versatile tool which provides com- prehensive information about cardiac ...
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Coronary artery occlusions diagnosed by transthoracic Doppler
... Though transthoracic Doppler echocardiogra- phy (TTE) cannot give a complete and panoramic view of the coronary arteries and collateral vessels, various find- ings by TTE are shown to diagnose occlusions and col- ...
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Clinical assessment of transthoracic echocardiography skills: a generalizability study
... Based on these estimates, we subsequently performed a series of decision studies (D-studies), in which dependability coefficients for test situations with different combinations of numbe[r] ...
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Genetic Polymorphisms and the Risk of Infection Following Esophagectomy
... This study revealed that there is a significantly higher distribution of TNF- ␣ ⫺ 308 GG genotype in a cohort of patients that developed infections following esophagectomy compared with other groups. No ...
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