Combined thoracoscopic/laparoscopic staging of esophageal cancer

The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Mark J KrasnaJ McLaughlin

Abstract

Unlike mediastinoscopy in lung cancer, there exists no standard minimally invasive test to stage esophageal cancer. If it were possible to obtain exact preoperative staging in esophageal cancer, patients could be separated prospectively to receive neoadjuvant therapy appropriately. We studied the feasibility and efficacy of thoracoscopic and laparoscopic lymph node staging in esophageal cancer. Thoracoscopic staging was performed in 45 patients with biopsy-proven carcinoma of the esophagus. Laparoscopic staging was done in the last 19 patients. Thoracoscopic staging was aborted in three patients because of adhesions. Thoracic lymph node stage was N0 in 39 patients and N1 in three; celiac lymph nodes were normal in 13 and diseased in six. Esophageal resection was performed in 30 patients after thoracoscopic staging; 17 of these underwent laparoscopic staging. Thoracoscopic staging showed N0 lymph node status in 28 patients and N1 in two patients. Two of the 28 patients (7%) with N0 disease were found at resection to have paraesophageal lymph node involvement (N1); thus the disease was understaged by thoracoscopic staging. Thoracoscopic staging was accurate in detecting the presence of diseased thoracic lymph nodes in 28 of 30 ca...Continue Reading

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