Anastomotic complications after esophagectomy continue to be a burden jeopardizing the
quality of life and of swallowing. However, incidence, mortality and morbidity of anastomotic …

Lung transplantation is still limited by the shortage of suitable donor organs. This results in
long waiting times for listed patients with a substantial risk (10–15%) of dying before …

Since 1992, various combinations of thoracoscopy (VATS), laparoscopy or hand-assisted
thoracolaparoscopy have been used for ‘minimally invasive’ cancer esophagectomy (MIE). …

PURPOSE: A prospective study of preoperative tumor-node-metastasis staging of patients
with esophageal cancer (EC) was designed to compare the accuracy of 18-F-fluoro-deoxy-d-…

Objective: To determine the impact of esophagectomy with 3-field lymphadenectomy on
staging, disease-free survival, and 5-year survival in patients with carcinoma of the esophagus …

Objectives: To assess the impact of postoperative complications after transthoracic esophagectomy,
using the modified Clavien classification, on recurrence and on its timing in patients …

Objective To assess the value of positron emission tomography with 18 fluorodeoxyglucose
(FDG-PET) for preoperative lymph node staging of patients with primary cancer of the …

From 1975 through 1988, 257 patients with carcinoma of the thoracic esophagus have been
treated in our department. Operability was 90%(232/257); overall resectability, 77%(198/257…

Objective: Modern large single institutional reports on pulmonary sequestration (PS) are
extremely rare. We were interested in comparing patients with PS referred by our pediatric …

BACKGROUND & AIMS: Achalasia is treated with pneumatic dilation or Heller myotomy, but
studies suggest poor long-term outcomes. We analyzed long-term outcomes after initial …