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Evaluation of the role of minimally invasive esophagectomy in management of esophageal cancer /

Ahmed Mahmoud Hussein Mahmoud

Evaluation of the role of minimally invasive esophagectomy in management of esophageal cancer / تقييم دور المنظار الجراحى فى استئصال أورام المرئ السرطانية Ahmed Mahmoud Hussein Mahmoud ; Supervised Safwat Abdelkader Salem , Hisham Ahmed AbouEisha , Hisham Mostafa Abdelsamad - Cairo : Ahmed Mahmoud Hussein Mahmoud , 2012 - 184 P. : facsimiles ; 25cm

Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of General Surgery

Esophageal cancer represents a major public health problem worldwide and often requires extensive surgery, so, radical surgery offers the most realistic chance of cure. Many open approaches for esophagectomy were being applied along the previous decades with their known and sometimes unavoidable morbidities. The recent introduction of the minimally invasive esophagectomy was a great evolution that carried a great change of radical and even palliative resections of the esophagus with the minimunm morbidity



Esophagectomy Laparoscopy Thoracoscopy