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Transhiatal Esophagectomy

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Transhiatal esophagectomy with a cervical anastomosis is an established procedure for the treatment of esophageal cancer. It is important to select the proper patients for this procedure, mostly avoiding those with severe mediastinal adhesions secondary to prior operations or radiotherapy, or those with T4 tumors. Cancer of the distal esophagus and esophago-gastric junction are well suited for this procedure, as most of the dissection of the area involved by the cancer can be done under direct vision.

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  1. Department of Surgery, Hospital Alemán of Buenos Aires, University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Francisco Schlottmann

  2. Department of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

    Marco G. Patti

  3. Department of Surgery, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

    Marco G. Patti

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  1. Hospital Alemán of Buenos Aires, University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Francisco Schlottmann

  2. Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, USA

    Daniela Molena

  3. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA

    Marco G. Patti

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Schlottmann, F., Patti, M.G. (2018). Transhiatal Esophagectomy. In: Schlottmann, F., Molena, D., Patti, M. (eds) Esophageal Cancer. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91830-3_9

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