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Outcomes After Transhiatal and Transthoracic Esophagectomy for Cancer

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1 Outcomes After Transhiatal and Transthoracic Esophagectomy for Cancer
Andrew C. Chang, MD, Hong Ji, MSc, Nancy J. Birkmeyer, PhD, Mark B. Orringer, MD, John D. Birkmeyer, MD  The Annals of Thoracic Surgery  Volume 85, Issue 2, Pages (February 2008) DOI: /j.athoracsur Copyright © 2008 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions

2 Fig 1 Patient identification algorithm. (CPT = Current Procedural Technology; ICD-9 = International Classification of Diseases, version 9; SEER = Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results database.) The Annals of Thoracic Surgery  , DOI: ( /j.athoracsur ) Copyright © 2008 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions

3 Fig 2 Kaplan-Meier plots describing overall survival for patients undergoing either transthoracic esophagectomy (TTE [solid line]) or transhiatal esophagectomy (THE [dashed line]), based on the SEER-Medicare linked database, 1992 to 2002. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery  , DOI: ( /j.athoracsur ) Copyright © 2008 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions


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