Table 1.

Complications of radical esophagectomy

Medical		Surgical
Major	Minor	Major	Minor
Respiratory
- Aspiration pneumonia	- Arrhythmias	- Anastomotic leaks	- wound infection
- Broncho pneumonia	- Psychiatric	- Conduit necrosis	- Effusion
- Respiratory failure	- Urinary tract infection	- Chyle (Thoracic duct) leak	- Pneumothorax
- ARDS	- Infective diarrhoea	- RLN palsy	- Delayed emptying
		- Bleeding	- Feeding tube related
		- Gastrointestinal	- collection (intra-abdominal)
		- Intra thoracic
		- Gastro bronchial fistula
		- Injury to tracheo bronchial tree
		- Tumor rupture & contamination
		- Strictures
Cardiac
Myocardial infarction
Unstable angina
- Thromboembolism