Mariette and colleagues randomly assigned 207 patients with resectable esophageal cancer to undergo either transthoracic open esophagectomy or hybrid minimally invasive esophagectomy. The hybrid procedure resulted in a lower incidence of major intraoperative or postoperative complications (odds ratio, 0.31; 95% confidence interval, 0.18 – 0.55; p
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Hybrid Minimally Invasive Esophagectomy for Esophageal Cancer
Submitted by: Claire Vernon
Source: The New England Journal of Medicine
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Author(s): Christophe Mariette, Sheraz R. Markar, Tienhan S. Dabakuyo-Yonli, Bernard Meunier, Denis Pezet, Denis Collet, Xavier B. D’Journo, Cécile Brigand, Thierry Perniceni, Nicolas Carrère, Jean-Yves Mabrut, Simon Msika, Frédérique Peschaud, Michel Prudhomme, Franck Bonnetain, Guillaume Piessen, for the Fédération de Recherche en Chirurgie (FRENCH) and French Eso-Gastric Tumors (FREGAT) Working Group
