[Surgery of the esophagus under thoracoscopy. Study of feasibility].
An experimental study of thoracoscopic surgery on the esophagus was conducted in 11 animals. Complete dissection of the esophagus was carried out in the ten last cases. Other procedures performed included mode picking, truncal vagotomies, and myotomies. The thoracoscopic esophageal surgery might allow to decrease the morbidity of thoracotomy. Its interest, compared with other methods of dissection without thoracotomy, has to be evaluated.
Gossot
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Service de Chirurgie Digestive et Thoracique, Hôpital Saint-Louis, Paris.
Debiolles
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H
Ghnassia
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MD
Chourrout
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Y
Célérier
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M
Révillon
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Y
D000818:Animals; D004938:Esophageal Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery; D016629:Esophagectomy / Q000379:methods*; D004947:Esophagus / Q000601:surgery*; D013552:Swine; D013906:Thoracoscopy / Q000379:methods*