Modified McKeown minimally invasive esophagectomy for esophageal cancer: a 5-year retrospective study of 142 patients in a single institution.

Modified McKeown minimally invasive esophagectomy for esophageal cancer: a 5-year retrospective study of 142 patients in a single institution.

BACKGROUND: To achieve decreased invasiveness and lower morbidity, minimally invasive esophagectomy (MIE) was introduced in 1997 for localized esophageal cancer. The combined thoracoscopic-laparoscopic esophagectomy (left neck anastomosis, defined as the McKeown MIE procedure) has been performed sin...

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Main Authors: Baofu Chen, Bo Zhang, Chengchu Zhu, Zhongrui Ye, Chunguo Wang, Dehua Ma, Minhua Ye, Min Kong, Jiang Jin, Jiang Lin, Chunlei Wu, Zheng Wang, Jiahong Ye, Jian Zhang, Quanteng Hu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3869695?pdf=render

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