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Robotically-Assisted Minimally Invasive Esophagectomy (RAMIE): The Ivor Lewis Approach

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The incidence of esophageal cancer has increased exponentially over the past three decades, particularly in the United States and other western countries, with rates of esophageal adenocarcinoma rising faster than rates for any other solid organ tumor [1, 2]. According to the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program (SEER) database, an estimated 16,910 newly diagnosed cases and 15,690 deaths due to esophageal malignancy were expected in the United States in 2016. These estimates place esophageal cancer as the sixth most lethal cancer in both the United States and the rest of the world [3].

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  1. Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Fernando M. Safdie MD & Inderpal S. Sarkaria MD

  2. University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Nicholas R. Hess BS

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  1. Department of Surgery, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, CA, USA

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  2. Department of Surgery, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, CA, USA

    Yanghee Woo

  3. Robotic Surgery, Yonsei University Health System, Seoul, Korea (Republic of)

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  4. Department of Surgery, Division of Urology and Urologic Oncology, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, CA, USA

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  5. Department of Surgery, Gastric and Mixed Tumor Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA

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Safdie, F.M., Hess, N.R., Sarkaria, I.S. (2018). Robotically-Assisted Minimally Invasive Esophagectomy (RAMIE): The Ivor Lewis Approach. In: Fong, Y., Woo, Y., Hyung, W., Lau, C., Strong, V. (eds) The SAGES Atlas of Robotic Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91045-1_35

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