Open versus hybrid minimally invasive esophagectomy: Join the crowd, but do not throw away your abdominal retractors just yet

Feature Editor's Note —Thoracic surgery is a specialty that embraces highly complex operative procedures while leading the universal field of minimally invasive surgery. Esophagectomy is arguably one of the most technically demanding gastrointestinal procedures, and its learning curve is not gentle. In the not too dist ant past, many would not have predicted that one-third of all esophagectomies performed by participants in the Society of Thoracic Surgeons database would be minimally invasive esophagectomies (MIEs).
Source: The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery - Category: Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery Authors: Tags: Thoracic: Esophageal cancer: Invited expert ppinion Source Type: research