RT Book, Section
A1 Namm, Jukes P.
A1 Posner, Mitchell C.
A2 Morita, Shane Y.
A2 Balch, Charles M.
A2 Klimberg, V. Suzanne
A2 Pawlik, Timothy M.
A2 Posner, Mitchell C.
A2 Tanabe, Kenneth K.
SR Print(0)
ID 1145761062
T1 Transhiatal Esophagectomy
T2 Textbook of Complex General Surgical Oncology
YR 2018
FD 2018
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071793315
LK accesssurgery.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1145761062
RD 2024/04/19
AB Surgery,  either  alone  or  in  combination  with  other  therapeutic  options  (chemotherapy  and/or  radiotherapy),  remains  an  essential  component  of  a  multimodality  approach  to  midstage  esophageal  cancer  and  an  effective  means  to  achieve  a  long-term  disease-free  state.  However,  despite  considerable  improvements  in  reducing  the  perioperative  morbidity  and  mortality  of  esophageal  resection,  surgery  alone—regardless  of  the  approach—is  inadequate  to  achieve  a  cure  in  the  vast  majority  of  patients.1,2  The  history  of  surgical  resection  for  esophageal  carcinoma  has  been  well  described  by  Hurt.3  The  first  successful  resection  of  a  cervical  esophageal  carcinoma  was  performed  by  Czerny  in  1877.  Denk  followed  by  describing  the  first  “pull  through”  operation  in  a  cadaver  that  removed  the  esophagus  without  a  thoracotomy  in  1913.  Turner  further  developed  the  technique  and  performed  the  first  successful  Denk-type  operation  on  a  patient  in  1933.  However,  due  to  early  failures,  the  transpleural  esophageal  resection  became  the  established  procedure  for  esophageal  carcinoma  until  Orringer  reintroduced  the  transhiatal  Denk-Turner  “pull  through”  operation  in  1976  reporting  impressive  initial  results—subsequently  updated  and  validated—that  mimicked  those  produced  with  the  transthoracic  approach.4,5