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Oesophageal Cancer

Oesophagectomy

>	Introduction
>	Experience
>	Technique
>	References

Experience

40 patients underwent laparoscopic transhiatal esophagectomy at the St Pierre University Hospital at Brussels between April 1999 and March 2003 without operative mortality. The median hospital stay was 12 days. The follow up is too short to evaluate if the live expectancy can be increased.