Dmitrii Sekhniaidze, Malik Agasiev
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Regional Clinic Hospital, Tyumen, Russia.
J Vis Surg. 2016 Oct 20;2:163. doi: 10.21037/jovs.2016.10.01. eCollection 2016.
Esophageal cancer is one of the most debilitating diseases, and treatment of patients with this medical condition is considered to be one of the most complicated problems in clinical oncology. The up-to-date tendency of bringing minimally-invasive surgeries into more widespread use makes it necessary to invent new techniques to solve some or other tasks including those accompanying esophageal diseases. This article shows our innovation minimally-invasive technique of Ivor Lewis esophagectomy.