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Inclusion and exclusion criteria. One hundred seventy-one patients underwent esophagectomy. Thirty-eight were excluded for benign pathologies. Ten were excluded for head and neck SCC, unresectable cancer at the time of surgery, or Barrett esophagus. Of the 123 patients with esophageal cancer who underwent esophagectomy, 87 were non-ASI users and 36 were ASI users.
