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Surgical Anatomy of the Esophagus

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Many regard the esophagus as merely a “food pipe” through which food traverses the gap between the pharynx and the stomach.

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  1. Department of Anatomy, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Teus J. Weijs & Ronald L. A. W. Bleys

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  1. Unidad de Cirugia Esofago-gàstrica, Hospital Universitario de Gran Canaria “Dr. Negrìn”, Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Spain

    M. Asunción Acosta

  2. Department of Surgery, Amsterdam University Medical Centre (UMC), Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Miguel A. Cuesta

  3. Department of Surgery, Hospital Universitario y Politècnico La Fè, València, Spain

    Marcos Bruna

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Weijs, T.J., Bleys, R.L.A.W. (2021). Surgical Anatomy of the Esophagus. In: Asunción Acosta, M., Cuesta, M.A., Bruna, M. (eds) Atlas of Minimally Invasive Techniques in Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55176-6_1

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