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Robot-Assisted Minimally Invasive Esophagectomy (RAMIE)

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The standard treatment for locally advanced esophageal cancer with curative intent is multimodality treatment containing either preoperative chemoradiation or perioperative chemotherapy followed by open esophagectomy [1, 2].

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  1. Department of Surgical Oncology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Richard van Hillegersberg, Pieter C. van der Sluis & Jelle P. Ruurda

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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

17.1 Electronic supplementary material

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RAMIE thoracoscopic esophageal resection

Ivor Lewis RAMIE: intrathoracic anastomosis

T4b Mediastinal dissection by thoracoscopic RAMIE

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van Hillegersberg, R., van der Sluis, P.C., Ruurda, J.P. (2021). Robot-Assisted Minimally Invasive Esophagectomy (RAMIE). 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_17

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