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. 1995 Nov;222(5):654–662. doi: 10.1097/00000658-199511000-00008

Mortality and morbidity rates, postoperative course, quality of life, and prognosis after extended radical lymphadenectomy for esophageal cancer. Comparison of three-field lymphadenectomy with two-field lymphadenectomy.

H Fujita 1, T Kakegawa 1, H Yamana 1, I Shima 1, Y Toh 1, Y Tomita 1, T Fujii 1, K Yamasaki 1, K Higaki 1, T Noake 1, et al.
PMCID: PMC1234993  PMID: 7487213

Abstract

PURPOSE: The authors evaluated the efficacy of extended radical (three-field) lymphadenectomy for esophageal cancer compared with less radical (two-field) lymphadenectomy. STUDY SUBJECTS AND ANALYTIC METHODS: The mortality and morbidity rates, postoperative courses, and survival rates were compared between 63 patients who underwent three-field lymph node dissection and 65 who underwent two-field lymph node dissection at Kurume University Hospital from 1986 to 1991. Long-term quality of life after surgery was compared between 37 patients who underwent three-field dissection and 35 who underwent two-field dissection from 1980 to 1991. RESULTS: Three-field dissection resulted in better survival for patients with positive lymph node metastasis from a carcinoma in the upper thoracic or midthoracic esophagus compared with two-field dissection. The mortality rates, postoperative courses and quality of life were the same for both procedures. CONCLUSIONS: Three-field dissection is preferred for upper thoracic or midthoracic esophageal cancer because of improved survival, acceptable mortality and morbidity rates, and good postoperative course and quality of life.

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