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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Thorac Surg Clin. 2009 Aug;19(3):333–343. doi: 10.1016/j.thorsurg.2009.06.002

Figure 2.

Figure 2

A, Operative mortality following esophagectomy, 1994–2003 Nationwide Inpatient Sample. B, Overall five-year survival following esophagectomy for cancer, 1992–2001 SEER-Medicare linked database. Data from J Am Coll Surg, vol. 205, Finlayson E, Fan Z and Birkmeyer JD, “Outcomes in octogenarians undergoing high-risk cancer operation: a national study,” pp. 729–734, © 2007, with permission from Elsevier.