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Ann Thorac Surg 2002;74:1291-1292
© 2002 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Correspondence

Esophagectomy in elderly patients over 70 years of age

Yingjie Cui, MDa, Hongyi Chen, MDa

a Department of Thoracic Surgery, First Hospital, Beijing University, Xishiku Dajie 8, Xicheng Qu, Beijing 100034, The People’s Republic of China

e-mail: ycui3103@hotmail.com

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To the Editor

Although the article by Fang and associates [1] demonstrated that those patients over 70 years of age with esophagectomy gained "satisfactory" long-term results, three issues should be considered by the authors.

The first issue regards the incidence of esophagogastric leakage. The authors showed . . . [Full Text of this Article]






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