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Thoracoscopic Radical Oesophagectomy for Cancer

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Three-field lymphadenectomy has been performed routinely since mid-1980s in Japan [1], but the extent of lymph node dissection is still in argument, such as the extended, the total mediastinal, or the three field [2].

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  1. Department of Surgery, Institute of Gastroenterology, Tokyo Women’s Medical University, Sinjuku-ku, Japan

    Harushi Osugi, Kousuke Narumiya & Kenji Kudou

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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

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

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Osugi, H., Narumiya, K., Kudou, K. (2021). Thoracoscopic Radical Oesophagectomy for Cancer. 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_15

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