title: Totally laparoscopic esophago-gastrectomy.
abstract: The recent progress of surgical endoscopy has allowed to perform minimally invasive esophagectomy both by a combined laparoscopic/thoracoscopic and a totally laparoscopic transhiatal approach. Up to now, all these techniques imply a thoracic (or thoracoscopic) and/or cervical access to perform the esophagogastric anastomosis. In the presented case, a 44-year-old white male patient affected by adenocarcinoma of the cardia (Siewert type 2) underwent a distal esophagectomy entirely accomplished by laparoscopy (including the realization of a mechanical intrathoracic esophagogastrostomy), without the need of any thoracic (nor thoracoscopic) nor cervical access. Duration of surgery was 407 minutes. Postoperative course was uneventful and the patient was discharged on day 7. In selected cases, a totally laparoscopic esophago-gastrectomy without thoracic nor cervical access, may improve the patient's outcome
authors.affiliation: Clinique de Chirurgie Digestive, CHU Saint-Pierre, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgique. renato.costi@unipr.it
authors.forename: Renato
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Costi
authors.forename: Jacques
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Himpens
authors.forename: Basile
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Essola
authors.forename: Leopoldo
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Sarli
authors.forename: Vincenzo
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Violi
authors.forename: Luigi
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Roncoroni
authors.forename: Guy Bernard
authors.initials: GB
authors.lastname: Cadière
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000601:surgery*; D000328:Adult; D002299:Cardia / Q000601:surgery*; D016629:Esophagectomy / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D005743:Gastrectomy / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D010535:Laparoscopy / Q000379:methods*; D008297:Male; D012074:Remission Induction; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*