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Thoracoscopic Esophagectomy and Hand-Assisted Laparoscopic Gastric Mobilization for Esophageal Cancer with Situs Inversus Totalis

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  1. Department of Surgery, Houju Memorial Hospital, 11-71 Midorigaoka, Nomi, Ishikawa, 923-1226, Japan

    Yasumichi Yagi, Yutaka Yoshimitsu, Tsutomu Maeda & Hiroshi Sakuma

  2. Department of Gastroenterology, Houju Memorial Hospital, Nomi, Ishikawa, 923-1226, Japan

    Michio Watanabe, Masuo Nakai & Hiroshi Ueda

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Yagi, Y., Yoshimitsu, Y., Maeda, T. et al. Thoracoscopic Esophagectomy and Hand-Assisted Laparoscopic Gastric Mobilization for Esophageal Cancer with Situs Inversus Totalis. J Gastrointest Surg 16, 1235–1239 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11605-011-1789-y

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