Minimally invasive approach for esophageal resection for cancer is increasingly used in many centers because it can resect the esophageal cancer along the same planes as in the conventional way, and perform the same type of one- or two-field lymphadenectomy (obtaining the same number of lymph nodes (LN)), but avoiding a thoracotomy and/or laparotomy. Consequences of this are less postoperative pain and possibly less respiratory complications.
Initial reports used the right lateral thoracoscopic approach with total lung block in order to visualize and dissect the esophagus [1–3]. The goal of this minimally invasive procedure was to resect the esophageal cancer, according to established oncological principles, with all postoperative advantages of the minimally invasive surgery.
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Cuesta, M.A., Scheepers, J.J.G., Oosterhuis, W., Biere, S.S.A.Y., van der Peet, D.L., Heijnen, B.H.M. (2010). Thoracoscopic Esophageal Resection for Cancer in Prone Decubitus Position: Operative Technique. In: Atlas of Minimally Invasive Surgery in Esophageal Carcinoma. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84882-768-4_6
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