TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Transhiatal Esophagectomy A1 - Namm, Jukes P. A1 - Posner, Mitchell C. A2 - Morita, Shane Y. A2 - Balch, Charles M. A2 - Klimberg, V. Suzanne A2 - Pawlik, Timothy M. A2 - Posner, Mitchell C. A2 - Tanabe, Kenneth K. PY - 2018 T2 - Textbook of Complex General Surgical Oncology AB - Surgery, either alone or in combination with other therapeutic options (chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy), remains an essential component of a multimodality approach to midstage esophageal cancer and an effective means to achieve a long-term disease-free state. However, despite considerable improvements in reducing the perioperative morbidity and mortality of esophageal resection, surgery alone—regardless of the approach—is inadequate to achieve a cure in the vast majority of patients.1,2 The history of surgical resection for esophageal carcinoma has been well described by Hurt.3 The first successful resection of a cervical esophageal carcinoma was performed by Czerny in 1877. Denk followed by describing the first “pull through” operation in a cadaver that removed the esophagus without a thoracotomy in 1913. Turner further developed the technique and performed the first successful Denk-type operation on a patient in 1933. However, due to early failures, the transpleural esophageal resection became the established procedure for esophageal carcinoma until Orringer reintroduced the transhiatal Denk-Turner “pull through” operation in 1976 reporting impressive initial results—subsequently updated and validated—that mimicked those produced with the transthoracic approach.4,5 SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/29 UR - hemonc.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1145761062 ER -