title: [Surgical treatment of recurrent esophageal carcinoma after curative radiotherapy].
abstract: 34 patients with recurrent esophageal carcinoma received surgery after curative radiotherapy. The overall resectability was 82.3%, and anastomotic leakage pulmonary complication, recurrent laryngeal nerve paralysis, empyema occurred in 32%. The operative mortality was 17.8%, four of the five postoperative deaths were due to pulmonary complication. The 1-, 3-, 5-year survival rates were 71.4%, 36.3%, 25% respectively. Surgical technique, indications and operative factors were discussed.
authors.affiliation: Henan Cancer Hospital, Zhengzhou.
authors.forename: G Q
authors.initials: GQ
authors.lastname: Wei
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000401:mortality / Q000532:radiotherapy / Q000601:surgery*; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D004938:Esophageal Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000532:radiotherapy / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local / Q000601:surgery*; D015996:Survival Rate