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Atlas of Upper Gastrointestinal and Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Surgery pp 79–87Cite as

Subtotal En Bloc Esophagectomy: Abdominothoracic Approach

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The goal of this operation is to remove an esophageal cancer with the widest possible lymphatic clearance (two-field lymphadenectomy), which comprises upper abdominal lymphadenectomy and lymphatic clearance of the posterior and mid mediastinum. Reconstruction is accomplished by either gastric tube or colonic interposition.

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  1. Stefan B. Hosch

    Present address: Department of Surgery, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Moorenstrasse 5, 40225, Düsseldorf, Germany

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  1. Department of General, Visceral and Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf, Martinistrasse 52, 20246, Hamburg, Germany

    Stefan B. Hosch, Asad Kutup & Jakob R. Izbicki

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  1. Department of Surgery, University Hospital Zurich, Raemistrasse 100, 8091, Zurich, Switzerland

    Pierre-Alain Clavien MD, PhD  & Panco Georgiev MD  & 

  2. Department of Surgery, Division of Gastroenterologic and General Surgery, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, 200 First Street SW, Rochester, MN, 55905, USA

    Michael G. Sarr MD

  3. Department of Surgery, Gastric and Mixed Tumor Service, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY, 10065, USA

    Yuman Fong MD

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Hosch, S.B., Kutup, A., Izbicki, J.R. (2007). Subtotal En Bloc Esophagectomy: Abdominothoracic Approach. In: Clavien, PA., Sarr, M.G., Fong, Y., Georgiev, P. (eds) Atlas of Upper Gastrointestinal and Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Surgery. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-68866-2_10

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