User: Guest  Login
Title:

Esophageal cancer surgery in heart transplant patients.

Document type:
Journal Article; Article
Author(s):
von Rahden, BH; Stein, HJ; Schmidt, G; Bartels, H; Overbeck, M; Siewert, JR
Abstract:
We herein report about 2 heart transplant patients undergoing surgical resection for esophageal cancer. Both were long-term survivors after orthotopic heart transplantation for dilated cardiomyopathy. One patient underwent a transthoracic esophagectomy and gastric pull-up for an early squamous cell carcinoma of the infracarinal esophagus. The second patient underwent a resection of the cervical esophagus and interposition of a free jejunal segment after neoadjuvant radiochemotherapy for a locall...     »
Journal title abbreviation:
Ann Thorac Surg
Year:
2005
Journal volume:
80
Journal issue:
4
Pages contribution:
1510-2
Language:
eng
Fulltext / DOI:
doi:10.1016/j.athoracsur.2004.04.068
Pubmed ID:
http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16181905
Print-ISSN:
0003-4975
TUM Institution:
Chirurgische Klinik und Poliklinik; I. Medizinische Klinik und Poliklinik (Kardiologie); Klinik für Herz- und Gefäßchirurgie (Prof. Lange)
 BibTeX