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Open or Minimally Invasive Esophagectomy After Neoadjuvant Therapy

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In 1991, Dallemagne introduced the right thoracoscopic approach in lateral position for esophageal cancer with total lung block, thereby mimicking the conventional approach [1]. Initial reports showed a high conversion rate to thoracotomy and a high respiratory morbidity rate. Searching for reduction of the conversion rate and the respiratory infection rate, Cuschieri et al. redesigned the thoracoscopic approach in prone decubitus position so that a total collapse of the lung was no longer necessary for dissecting the esophagus and thereby possibly reducing the rate of respiratory infections [2].

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van der Peet, D.L., Straatman, J., van der Wielen, N.I., Cuesta, M.A. (2017). Open or Minimally Invasive Esophagectomy After Neoadjuvant Therapy. In: Cuesta, M. (eds) Minimally Invasive Surgery for Upper Abdominal Cancer. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54301-7_6

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