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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Surg. 2014 Jul 21;208(4):536–543. doi: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2014.05.011

Table 1. Systematic Literature Search for management of anastomotic leaks.

Search Terms Number of articles
  1) ‘esophagectomy’ AND (anastomosis OR anastomotic) AND leak AND
 (‘complication’/exp/mj OR complication) AND [humans]/lim
 AND [english]/lim AND [2000-2014]		 326
  2) ‘esophagectomy’/exp AND (‘anastomosis’/exp OR anastomotic) AND leak AND
 ‘stent’/exp AND [humans]/lim AND [english]/lim AND [2000-2014]		 70
  3) ‘esophagectomy’/exp AND (‘anastomosis’/exp OR anastomotic) AND oment* AND
 [humans]/lim AND [english]/lim AND [2000-2014]		 28
  4) ‘esophagus’ AND (‘resection’/exp/mj OR ‘resection’) AND ’anastomosis dehiscence’ 98
Total number of articles 522
Total number after removal of duplicates 465
Final number after review for inclusion and exclusion criteria and addition of articles from review of referencesa 51
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Exclusion criteria: abstract only; operations other than esophagectomy; anastomotic leak not a major focus of article; not published in English; case reports with <3 patients; review articles other than systematic reviews and meta-analysis; other than esophagogastric anastomosis