• Minimally Invasive Thoracic Surgery Center, Changzheng Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, 200003, P.R.China;
TANG Hua, Email: tangh_mits@163.com
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Objective To investigate the short-term follow-up results of inflatable mediastinoscopy combined with laparoscopy in the treatment of esophageal cancer.Methods Clinical data of 102 patients with esophageal cancer who underwent minimally invasive esophagectomy were enrolled in our hospital from January 2017 to January 2019. Patients were divided into two groups according to different surgical methods, including a single-port inflatable mediastinoscopy combined with laparoscopy group (group A, n=59, 53 males and 6 females, aged 63.3±7.6 years, ranging from 45 to 75 years) and a video-assisted thoracoscopy combined with laparoscopy group (group B, n=43, 35 males and 8 females, aged 66.7±6.7 years, ranging from 50-82 years). The short-term follow-up results of the two groups were compared.Results Compared with the group A, the rate of postoperative pulmonary complication of the group B was significantly lower (18.64% vs. 4.65%, P<0.05). There was no significant difference between the two groups in other postoperative complications (P>0.05). The 6-month, 1-year, and 2-year survival rates were 96.61%, 89.83%, and 73.33%, respectively in the group A, and were 95.35%, 93.02%, and 79.17%, respectively in the group B. There was no significant difference in short-term survival rate after operation (P>0.05).Conclusion In the treatment of esophageal cancer, the incidence of pulmonary complications of inflatable mediastinoscopy combined with laparoscopy is lower than that of traditional video-assisted thoracoscopy combined with laparoscopy, and there is no significant difference in other postoperative complications or short-term survival rate between the two methods. Inflatable mediastinoscopy combined with laparoscopy for radical esophageal cancer is a relatively safe surgical method with good short-term curative effects, and long-term curative effects need to be further tested.

Citation: FANG Yunhao, CHEN Zihao, WEI Rongqiang,  HUANG Kenan , DING Xinyu, LIU Chengdong, XU Zhifei, WU Bin, TANG Hua. Short-term follow-up results of inflatable mediastinoscopy combined with laparoscopy versus video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery combined with laparoscopy for esophageal cancer. Chinese Journal of Clinical Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 2021, 28(2): 239-242. doi: 10.7507/1007-4848.202004062 Copy

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