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It has generally accepted that surgical intervention produces immunodeficiency [1, 2]. Malnutrition is also immunosuppressive [3]. So, in the patient with esophageal cancer, with the presence of preoperative starvation, the host defense mechanism is markedly suppressed by operations which involve intraabdominal and intrathoracic procedures.
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Hayashi, S. et al. (1993). The Immunological Changes After Operation for Esophageal Cancer and the Effect of Lentinan. In: Nabeya, Ki., Hanaoka, T., Nogami, H. (eds) Recent Advances in Diseases of the Esophagus. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-68246-2_176
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