Relationship between the severity of emphysematous change in the lung and morbidity after esophagectomy for esophageal cancer: A retrospective study on a novel strategy for risk prediction.

LAVR may reflect COPD severity and predict severe morbidity and pneumonia after OE, but not after MIE. Less invasiveness of MIE may alleviate the effects of various disadvantageous backgrounds associated with high LAVR on worse short-term outcomes.