TY  - JOUR
AU  - Depypere, Lieven
AU  - Coosemans, Willy
AU  - Nafteux, Philippe
AU  - Veer, Hans Van
AU  - Neyrinck, Arne
AU  - Coppens, Steve
AU  - Boelens, Chantal
AU  - Laes, Kristel
AU  - Lerut, Toni
PY  - 2017
TI  - Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery and open chest surgery in esophageal cancer treatment: present and future
JF  - Journal of Visualized Surgery; Vol 3 (March 2017): Journal of Visualized Surgery
Y2  - 2017
KW  - 
N2  - Surgical esophageal cancer treatment has, like other solid organ cancer treatments, evolved from a monospeciality treatment towards a multidisciplinary treatment. In an increasing number of centers around the world minimally invasive esophagectomy (MIE) is now proposed as the preferred surgical approach although there is still a place for open surgery in selected cases. Careful assessment of oncologic and medical operability and adequate pre-operative preparation are the first and foremost important steps to guarantee optimal oncological and functional results. This article serves as a practical guide to MIE for esophageal cancer with figures, equipment preference cards and videos explaining and illustrating a MIE procedure in prone position as one example of the present state of the art. Some future perspectives will also be discussed.
UR  - https://jovs.amegroups.org/article/view/14017