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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. All esophagectomies were completed thoracoscopically and reconstruction of the digestive tract was performed in 17 cases through cervical gastroplasty, and in 1 case, through cervical coloplasty. One cirrhotic patient died in the postoperative period due to a cervical anastomotic leak. Six other patients experienced a postoperative complication (mortality rate, 5.5%; morbidity rate, 33.3%). After a median follow-up of 17 months, 14 patients are alive without evidence of disease. One patient, who had excision of a cutaneous metastasis at a trocar insertion site 6 months postoperatively, eventually died with locoregional recurrence 14 months postoperatively. Another patient died 20 months after surgery with mediastinal recurrence. One patient died 28 months postoperatively after massive hematemesis with a suspect abdominal recurrence. The results of the present series, and those reported by other authors, do not seem

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Author

Alberto Peracchia; Riccardo Rosati; Uberto Fumagalli; Stefano Bona; Barbara Chella

Publisher

John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (John Wiley & Sons); John Wiley & Sons Inc.; Wiley (ISSN 8756-0437)

Published

1997

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)