Erschienen in:
23.06.2021 | Thoracic Oncology
Minimally Invasive Esophagectomy: Are We There Yet?
verfasst von:
Zane Hammoud, MD
Erschienen in:
Annals of Surgical Oncology
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Ausgabe 11/2021
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Excerpt
The first minimally invasive esophagectomy (MIE) was performed in the early 1990s, and since that time, numerous reports have demonstrated the feasibility and safety of the procedure. In addition, numerous reports have documented excellent short- and long-term outcomes of MIE. In this current issue of
Annals of Surgical Oncology, Zheng and colleagues report on a large institutional series of patients who underwent either minimally invasive or open McKeown esophagectomy.
1 They analyze a variety of outcomes but mainly focus on long-term oncologic outcomes, specifically overall survival (OS) and disease-free survival (DFS). Not surprisingly, the authors report excellent overall outcomes and demonstrate yet again that MIE is, at minimum, equivalent to open esophagectomy (OE). In fact, the authors report that MIE led to improved OS compared with OE in their cohort of patients. …
