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ArticleSurgery today2026

Preoperative chemotherapy and enteral nutrition via a nasogastric tube do not improve preoperative nutritional status and survival outcomes for thoracic esophageal squamous cell carcinoma with esophageal stenosis.

Yasufumi Koterazawa, Hironobu Goto, Tomoko Tanaka, Tomoaki Aoki, Yutaka Sugita, Taro Ikeda, Hitoshi Harada, Yasunori Otowa, Naoki Urakawa, Hiroshi Hasegawa and 4 more

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Yasufumi KoterazawaDivision of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Department of Surgery, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, 7-5-2, Kusunoki-cho, Chuo-ku, Kobe City, 650-0017, Japan. kote1128@med.kobe-u.ac.jp.
Hironobu GotoDivision of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Department of Surgery, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, 7-5-2, Kusunoki-cho, Chuo-ku, Kobe City, 650-0017, Japan.
Tomoko TanakaDepartment of Gastroenterological Surgery, Hyogo Cancer Center, Hyogo, Japan.
Tomoaki AokiDivision of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Department of Surgery, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, 7-5-2, Kusunoki-cho, Chuo-ku, Kobe City, 650-0017, Japan.
Yutaka SugitaDivision of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Department of Surgery, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, 7-5-2, Kusunoki-cho, Chuo-ku, Kobe City, 650-0017, Japan.
Taro IkedaDivision of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Department of Surgery, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, 7-5-2, Kusunoki-cho, Chuo-ku, Kobe City, 650-0017, Japan.
Hitoshi HaradaDivision of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Department of Surgery, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, 7-5-2, Kusunoki-cho, Chuo-ku, Kobe City, 650-0017, Japan.
Yasunori OtowaDivision of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Department of Surgery, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, 7-5-2, Kusunoki-cho, Chuo-ku, Kobe City, 650-0017, Japan.
Naoki UrakawaDivision of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Department of Surgery, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, 7-5-2, Kusunoki-cho, Chuo-ku, Kobe City, 650-0017, Japan.
Hiroshi HasegawaDivision of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Department of Surgery, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, 7-5-2, Kusunoki-cho, Chuo-ku, Kobe City, 650-0017, Japan.
Shingo KanajiDivision of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Department of Surgery, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, 7-5-2, Kusunoki-cho, Chuo-ku, Kobe City, 650-0017, Japan.
Takeru MatsudaDivision of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Department of Surgery, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, 7-5-2, Kusunoki-cho, Chuo-ku, Kobe City, 650-0017, Japan.
Tetsu NakamuraDepartment of Gastroenterological Surgery, Hyogo Cancer Center, Hyogo, Japan.
Yoshihiro KakejiDivision of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Department of Surgery, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, 7-5-2, Kusunoki-cho, Chuo-ku, Kobe City, 650-0017, Japan.

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Enteral nutritionEsophageal stenosisPreoperative chemotherapyThoracic esophageal squamous cell carcinoma

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PMID41963720

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