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Hybrid Minimally Invasive Esophagectomy for Esophageal Cancer

Friday, January 18, 2019

Submitted by

Claire Vernon

Source

Source Name: The New England Journal of Medicine

Source URL: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1805101

Author(s)

Christophe Mariette, Sheraz R. Markar, Tienhan S. Dabakuyo-Yonli, Bernard Meunier, Denis Pezet, Denis Collet, Xavier B. D’Journo, Cécile Brigand, Thierry Perniceni, Nicolas Carrère, Jean-Yves Mabrut, Simon Msika, Frédérique Peschaud, Michel Prudhomme, Franck Bonnetain, Guillaume Piessen, for the Fédération de Recherche en Chirurgie (FRENCH) and French Eso-Gastric Tumors (FREGAT) Working Group

Mariette and colleagues randomly assigned 207 patients with resectable esophageal cancer to undergo either transthoracic open esophagectomy or hybrid minimally invasive esophagectomy. The hybrid procedure resulted in a lower incidence of major intraoperative or postoperative complications (odds ratio, 0.31; 95% confidence interval, 0.18 – 0.55; p<0.001). Both groups had similar survival over three years.

A summary of the article is available on MedPage Today.