TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Three-Field Esophagectomy A1 - Tsurumaru, Masahiko A1 - Kajiyama, Yoshiaki A1 - Iwanuma, Yoshimi A1 - Udagawa, Harushi A1 - Akiyama, Hiroshi A2 - Sugarbaker, David J. A2 - Bueno, Raphael A2 - Burt, Bryan M. A2 - Groth, Shawn S. A2 - Loor, Gabriel A2 - Wolf, Andrea S. A2 - Williams, Marcia A2 - Adams, Ann PY - 2020 T2 - Sugarbaker’s Adult Chest Surgery, 3e AB - The esophagus traverses the neck, mediastinum, and abdomen. Cancer of the thoracic esophagus can metastasize to lymph nodes and locate in any or all of these compartments.1 The rate of lymph node involvement is very high. Approximately 50% of tumors that invade the submucosa develop lymph node metastases, and the rate increases with increasing depth of invasion. Radical surgery for esophageal cancer therefore requires three-field lymphadenectomy. Our group has been performing three-field lymph node dissections since 1984 for all thoracoesophageal cancers. In this chapter we lay down the principles, describe the procedure, and discuss the outcome of this mode of treatment based on our experience. SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/28 UR - accesssurgery.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1170406525 ER -