J.Jpn. Surg. Soc.. 81(9): 1058-1062, 1980
Report on the annual meeting
SURGICAL TREATMENT FOR CARCINOMA OF THE THORACIC ESOPHAGUS; OUR POLICY FOR TREATMENT BASED ON STAGE OF THE DISEASE
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Second Department of Surgery, Akita University Medical School, Akita City, Japan Shichisaburo Abo, Hidio Miura, Tamotsu Kudo, Hidio Tooma, Toshinobu Ikeda, Masaaki Nakamura, Kazuo Tsuji, Toshiyuki Sakuma, Kiyotaka Maeda, Yoshihiko Murakawa, Yoshihiro Kawamura, Seiichiro Fujiwara, Yoshihiro Hirano, Masaji Hashimoto, Shinobu Mochida |
The majority of the patients who underwent operations were in the advanced stage with infiltration of the carcinoma into the adventitia as well as lymph nodes metastases.
Details of the results of the treatments based on the stage of the disease was presented in this commumcatlon.
The most of long term survivers were obtained from the group of patients in whom no lymph node metastasis was noted.
The postoperative irradiation to the cervical and upper mediastinal portion seemed to be effective in terms of prolongation of the life-span.
Our current policy for the surgical treatment of the esophageal cancer is to eliminate dysphaia and to lead the patients to normal life.
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