Cancer of the esophagus and cardia: does age influence treatment selection and surgical outcomes?
β Scribed by F.Henry Ellis Jr; Warren A Williamson; Gerald J Heatley
- Book ID
- 114355564
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 184 KB
- Volume
- 187
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1072-7515
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Out of a total of 250 resections for carcinoma of the esophagus done in our department between 1965 and 1983, there were 11 patients with a concurrent esophageal cancer, nine being gastric cancer and seven of them early gastric cancer. In these nine, four underwent resection of the esophagus and les
Six thousand one hundred twenty-three cases of carcinoma of the esophagus and gastric cardia were treated surgically from 1965 to 1985. Overall resectability was 89.9%. Postoperative mortality was 3%, and incidence of postoperative complication, 10.3%. Follow-up rate was 91.3%, with 5 year survival