Transhiatal robot-assisted esophagectomy

Abstract

With interest we read the article by Galvani and coauthors in which they describe their initial experience with laparoscopic transhiatal esophagectomy partly aided by a robotic system. Their series consists of 18 selected patients with Barrett’s esophagus and high-grade dysplasia (n = 9), adenocarcinoma in situ (n = 2), superficial adenocarcinoma (n = 5) or T2–3 esophageal adenocarcinoma (n = 2) without clinical evidence of lymph node metastases ...