ReviewJournal of thoracic disease2017
New insights into the surgical anatomy of the esophagus.
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- Short-term outcomes of robot-assisted versus conventional minimally invasive esophagectomy for esophageal cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis of 18,187 patients.Journal of robotic surgery · 2024Pooled it
- Anatomical Variations in Critical Structures in Esophageal Surgery: Implications for Personalized Surgery.Journal of personalized medicine · 2026Review
- One-Lung Ventilation Duration Is a Risk Factor for Pneumonia in Minimally Invasive and Robotic Esophagectomy.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- Endoscopic esophageal reconstruction in epiphrenic diverticulum: septotomy-free diverticulectomy and suturing.VideoGIE : an official video journal of the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy · 2026Article
- The White Plane in Esophageal Surgery: A Novel Anatomical Landmark with Prognostic Significance.Cancers · 2025Article
- Hidden in plain sight: unknown anatomy depiction and applications of the aorto-esophageal ligament.Mediastinum (Hong Kong, China) · 2025Review
- Mechanisms of esophageal cancer metastasis and treatment progress.Frontiers in immunology · 2023Review
- Outcomes of minimally invasive total mesoesophageal excision: a propensity score-matched analysis.Surgical endoscopy · 2022Article
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- Computed tomography angiography study of the azygos vein course and termination into superior vena cava: gender and age impact.Surgical and radiologic anatomy : SRA · 2021Observational
- Comparison of the short-term outcomes of robot-assisted minimally invasive, video-assisted minimally invasive, and open esophagectomy.Journal of thoracic disease · 2020Article
- Robotic-assisted minimally invasive esophagectomy: past, present and future.Journal of thoracic disease · 2020Review
- A standardized, surgically relevant map for emergence of organ-specific branches from the human vagus nerve.Brain stimulationArticle
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Abstract
Implementation of (robot assisted) minimally invasive esophagectomy and increased knowledge of the relation between the autonomic nervous system and the immune response have led to new insights regarding the surgical anatomy of the esophagus. First, two layers of connective tissue were identified; the aorto-esophageal and aorto-pleural ligaments that separate the peri-esophageal compartment, containing vagus nerves, carinal lymph nodes and trachea, from the para-aortic compartment; containing thoracic duct and azygos vein. Second the surgical anatomy of the pulmonary vagus nerve branches has been described in detail. Based on the hypothesis that sparing the vagal nerve branches may be important a method to spare the pulmonary branches of the vagus nerve during thoracoscopic esophagectomy was validated in a cadaver study. Further studies will now investigate the impact of these new insights in the surgical anatomy of the esophagus in clinical practice.
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