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Abdominothoracic En Bloc Esophagectomy with High Intrathoracic Anastomosis

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Atlas of Upper Gastrointestinal and Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Surgery

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High intrathoracic anastomosis may be performed without compromising the oncologic requirements alternatively to collar anastomosis for treatment of intrathoracic tumors, i.e., if located distally to the tracheal bifurcation. The benefits of considerably shorter operating times are associated with the risk of developing devastating mediastinitis when anastomotic leakage occurs.

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  1. Department of General, Visceral and Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf, Martinistrasse 52, 20246, Hamburg, Germany

    Asad Kutup, Emre F. Yekebas & Jakob R. Izbicki

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  1. Department of Surgery, University Hospital Zurich, Raemistrasse 100, 8091, Zurich, Switzerland

    Pierre-Alain Clavien MD, PhD  & Panco Georgiev MD  & 

  2. Department of Surgery, Division of Gastroenterologic and General Surgery, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, 200 First Street SW, Rochester, MN, 55905, USA

    Michael G. Sarr MD

  3. Department of Surgery, Gastric and Mixed Tumor Service, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY, 10065, USA

    Yuman Fong MD

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Kutup, A., Yekebas, E.F., Izbicki, J.R. (2007). Abdominothoracic En Bloc Esophagectomy with High Intrathoracic Anastomosis. In: Clavien, PA., Sarr, M.G., Fong, Y., Georgiev, P. (eds) Atlas of Upper Gastrointestinal and Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Surgery. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-68866-2_11

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