The average postoperative hospital stay was about 3 days because of the chest tube left in place at the time of the operation and the discomfort arising from the thoracic incisions. After a ...

Role of laparoscopic & robotic surgery in oncology: Dr. Arvind Kumar Wednesday, February 5, 2025, 08:00 Hrs [IST] Advancements in surgical techniques ...

Your heart, lungs, and the upper part of your esophagus (food pipe) are in the thoracic cavity above the diaphragm ... A healthy person can have some minor variations in the diaphragm's anatomy. For ...

Aside from the axillary artery, the subclavian arteries branch into the internal thoracic artery, vertebral artery ... being displaced to an area between the trachea (windpipe) and esophagus (the tube ...

Bart Frazzitta was told he had a 5% chance of surviving esophageal cancer. Twenty-five years later, he's still here and ...

The locations of the lesions were the cervical esophagus in two lesions, upper thoracic esophagus in 12 lesions, middle thoracic esophagus in 35 lesions, and lower thoracic esophagus in 19 lesions.

At the 2025 Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS ... the best possible outcomes for surgeries of the heart, lung, and esophagus, as well as other surgical procedures within the chest.

Eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) is a chronic (long-term) condition affecting the esophagus, the tube that carries food and liquids from the mouth to the stomach. EoE causes symptoms like difficulty ...

The best multimodal approach for resectable locally advanced esophageal adenocarcinoma is unclear. An important question is whether perioperative chemotherapy is preferable to preoperative ...

The ninth rib was resected, and the lower thoracic esophagus mobilized by division of the parietal pleura over it. A 5-cm. radial opening was made in the dome of the left leaf of the diaphragm.