Table 2.
Minimally invasive esophagectomy techniques used in the surgical treatment and anatomopathological results
| Esophagectomy technique | |
| Thoracoscopic | 39 (56.52%) |
| Transhiatal | 30 (43.47%) |
| Reconstitution of transit | |
| Tubularized gastric mobilization | 64 (92.75%) |
| Ascendant colon interposition | 5 (7.24%) |
| Conversion for open surgery | 1 (1.44%) |
| Resection | |
| R0 | 52 (75.36%) |
| R1 | 6 (8.69%) |
| R2 | 1 (1.44%) |
| Rx | 10 (14.49%) |
| Histological type | |
| Adenocarcinoma | 37 (53.62%) |
| Squamous carcinoma | 32 (46.37%) |
| Number of resected lymph nodes | 17.17±9.62 (2 – 46) |
| Stage | |
| 0 | 11.00 ± 7.07 |
| IA | 7.33 ± 5.03 |
| IB | 19.50 ± 4.16 |
| IIA | 6.66 ± 5.17 |
| IIB | 17.29 ± 10.36 |
| IIIA | 20.00 ± 11.27 |
| IIIB | 18.85 ± 5.26 |
| IIIC | 22.30 ± 7.28 |
| IV | 13.00 |