McKeown or Ivor Lewis minimally invasive esophagectomy: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Author(s) -
Jingpu Wang,
Jingfeng Hu,
Dengyan Zhu,
Kankan Wang,
Chunzhi Gao,
Tingting Shan,
Yang� Yang
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
translational cancer research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.254
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 2219-6803
pISSN - 2218-676X
DOI - 10.21037/tcr.2020.01.45
Subject(s) - medicine , esophagectomy , chylothorax , surgery , anastomosis , general surgery , mortality rate , esophageal cancer , cancer
Esophageal cancer is one of the most common cancers worldwide, with the highest incidence in the middleand low-income countries (1). Esophageal cancer related mortality continues to increase (2), and in 2016 there were approximately 455,800 cases of this tumor and 400,200 deaths (1). Although considerable progress has been made in the diagnosis and treatment of esophageal cancer, globally, the overall 5-year survival rate is only 15–20% (3). Currently, esophageal resection and systematic lymph node dissection regarded as the best treatment methods for this Original Article
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