Robot-assisted mediastinoscopic esophagectomy for esophageal cancer: the first clinical series.

Masaya NakauchiIchiro UyamaKoichi SudaSusumu ShibasakiKenji KikuchiShinichi KadoyaYoshinori IshidaKazuki Inaba

Published in: Esophagus : official journal of the Japan Esophageal Society (2018)

Robot-assisted mediastinoscopic esophagectomy was technically feasible and safe. Use of da Vinci Surgical System may help attenuate technical difficulties in transcervical middle mediastinal lymph node dissection.

Keyphrases

robot assisted
minimally invasive
lymph node
ultrasound guided
prostate cancer
early stage
radiation therapy
rectal cancer
locally advanced