Minimal or maximal surgery for esophageal cancer?

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¹ Division of Thoracic and Foregut Surgery, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pa. Electronic address: nasonks@upmc.edu.

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Katie S Nason. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2016 Mar.

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. 2016 Mar;151(3):633-635.

doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2015.09.118. Epub 2015 Oct 9.

¹ Division of Thoracic and Foregut Surgery, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pa. Electronic address: nasonks@upmc.edu.

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