Is There a Place for Thoracoscopic Enucleation of Esophageal Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors?

CONCLUSION: Thoracoscopic enucleation of E-GIST seems to represent a valuable option as the postoperative morbidity/mortality is low and the oncological outcome is good for low-to-intermediate grade of malignity tumors.This is a retrospective study focused on minimally invasive treatment of E-GIST. We evaluated the feasibility of VATS enucleation of low-to-medium grade of malignity E-GIST. PMID: 30267389 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: The Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon - September 28, 2018 Category: Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery Authors: Cohen C, Pop D, Icard P, Berthet JP, Venissac N, Mouroux J Tags: Thorac Cardiovasc Surg Source Type: research