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Thoracolaparoscopic McKeown esophagectomy

Author(s) -

Changchun Wang,

Chao Pan,

Weimin Mao,

Qixun Chen,

Jinshi Liu,

Jian Hu

Publication year - 2019

Publication title -

journal of thoracic disease

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.682

H-Index - 60

eISSN - 2077-6624

pISSN - 2072-1439

DOI - 10.21037/jtd.2019.06.25

Subject(s) - medicine , esophagus , esophagectomy , intravenous contrast , abdomen , radiology , cardiothoracic surgery , upper abdomen , computed tomography , endoscopy , esophageal squamous cell carcinoma , upper endoscopy , laparoscopy , general surgery , carcinoma , surgery , esophageal cancer , cancer

Unlike Europe and America, the rate of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) in China is 90% higher (1); also, most of the lesions are located at the middle thoracic part of the esophagus. There has been an increasing number of esophagectomies has been performing by video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) in China. Patients are staged with an upper endoscopy and computed tomography (CT) chest/abdomen scan with oral and intravenous contrast.

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