Exclusive radical surgery for esophageal adenocarcinoma

✍ Scribed by Jean-Marie Collard

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 120 KB
• Volume: 91
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0008-543X
• DOI: 10.1002/1097-0142(20010315)91:6<1098::aid-cncr1105>3.0.co;2-n

✦ Synopsis

BACKGROUND.

Because very poor survival rates were reported after exclusive nonradical surgery, the current opinion in the medical community is that very few esophageal adenocarcinoma patients can anticipate long-term survival after esophagectomy. In the current study the ability of exclusive radical surgery including very extended lymph node dissection to provide a substantial percentage of patients with long-term survival was examined.