title: [Left thoracic approach in carcinoma of the esophagogastric junction. Technics and results].
abstract: Of 137 patients operated on for adenocarcinoma at the esophageal-gastric junction by left-sided thoracotomy, only 25% were resectable radically, 25% relatively radically. Because of local or distant metastases the tumor was resectable palliatively in 36% of all patients. The 3-year-survival rate after curative resection is 38%. The left-sided approach to a cardia tumor allows good survey and enables radical resection and lymphonodulectomy. The complication rate is lower than after abdominothoracic incision.
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000601:surgery*; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000601:surgery; D004943:Esophagogastric Junction / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000401:mortality; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D013536:Suture Techniques
vernacular_title: Der linksthorakale Zugang beim Carcinom am oesophago-gastralen Ubergang. Technik und Ergebnisse.