Surgery
Volume 148, Issue 4 , Pages 831-840 , October 2010

Impact of anastomotic leak on outcomes after transhiatal esophagectomy

Presented at the Central Surgical Association 2010 Annual Meeting, March 10–13, 2010, Chicago, Illinois.

,Accepted 13 July 2010.

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doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2010.07.034

Surgery
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