Thoracoscopic resection for esophageal cancer: A review of literature

Esophageal resection remains the only curative option in high grade dysplasia of the Barrett esophagus and non metastasized esophageal cancer. In addition, it may also be an adequate treatment in selected cases of benign disease. A wide variety of minimally invasive procedures have become available...

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Autores principales: Scheepers, Joris J G, van der Peet, Donald L, Veenhof, Alexander A F A, Cuesta, Miguel A
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2007
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CME Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2749198/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19789676
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-9941.38909
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author Scheepers, Joris J G
van der Peet, Donald L
Veenhof, Alexander A F A
Cuesta, Miguel A
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van der Peet, Donald L
Veenhof, Alexander A F A
Cuesta, Miguel A
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description Esophageal resection remains the only curative option in high grade dysplasia of the Barrett esophagus and non metastasized esophageal cancer. In addition, it may also be an adequate treatment in selected cases of benign disease. A wide variety of minimally invasive procedures have become available in esophageal surgery. Aim of the present review article is to evaluate minimally invasive procedures for esophageal resection, especially the approach performed through right thoracoscopy.
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spelling pubmed-27491982009-09-29 Thoracoscopic resection for esophageal cancer: A review of literature Scheepers, Joris J G van der Peet, Donald L Veenhof, Alexander A F A Cuesta, Miguel A J Minim Access Surg CME Article Esophageal resection remains the only curative option in high grade dysplasia of the Barrett esophagus and non metastasized esophageal cancer. In addition, it may also be an adequate treatment in selected cases of benign disease. A wide variety of minimally invasive procedures have become available in esophageal surgery. Aim of the present review article is to evaluate minimally invasive procedures for esophageal resection, especially the approach performed through right thoracoscopy. Medknow Publications 2007 /pmc/articles/PMC2749198/ /pubmed/19789676 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-9941.38909 Text en © Journal of Minimal Access Surgery http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Scheepers, Joris J G
van der Peet, Donald L
Veenhof, Alexander A F A
Cuesta, Miguel A
Thoracoscopic resection for esophageal cancer: A review of literature
title Thoracoscopic resection for esophageal cancer: A review of literature
title_full Thoracoscopic resection for esophageal cancer: A review of literature
title_fullStr Thoracoscopic resection for esophageal cancer: A review of literature
title_full_unstemmed Thoracoscopic resection for esophageal cancer: A review of literature
title_short Thoracoscopic resection for esophageal cancer: A review of literature
title_sort thoracoscopic resection for esophageal cancer: a review of literature
topic CME Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2749198/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19789676
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-9941.38909
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