title: Minimally invasive esophagectomy by video-assisted thoracoscopic approach for esophageal carcinoma. A case report.
abstract: Esophageal carcinoma represents a pathological entity with a bad prognosis even if adequate multimodal treatment is applied. Because of the high operative morbidity and mortality, due especially to respiratory and infectious complications, the tendency nowadays is to mobilize the thoracic esophagus and to perform esophagectomy and mediastinal lymphadenectomy by thoracoscopy instead of thoracotomy. We present the case of a 55-year-old male patient who was diagnosed with a mediothoracic esophageal spinocellular carcinoma, in whom we successfully performed subtotal esophagectomy by cervico-thoraco-abdominal approach, the dissection of the thoracic esophagus being performed entirely by thoracoscopy.
authors.affiliation: 3rd Surgical Clinic, Clinical Hospital, Str. Croitorilor 19-21, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. gezamolnar@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Geza
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Molnár
authors.forename: Nadim
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Al Haijar
authors.forename: Irén
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Géczi Toth
authors.forename: Nicoleta
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Nicolescu
authors.forename: Cornel
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Iancu
mesh_terms: D004938:Esophageal Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D016629:Esophagectomy / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D019060:Minimally Invasive Surgical Procedures; D020775:Thoracic Surgery, Video-Assisted; D013906:Thoracoscopy; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed