Figure 1From: Long-term survival from adenocarcinoma of the esophagus after transthoracic and transhiatal esophagectomyThe observed mortality rate with 95% confidence interval of patients with adenocarcinoma of the esophagus after (a) transthoracic- or (b) transhiatal esophagectomy. The corresponding mortality rate of the general population with the same composition of age, gender, and year of birth as the treatment group is presented as the uppermost single plot in each panel.Back to article page