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Table 2 Surgical and postoperative outcomes

From: Left recurrent nerve lymph node dissection in robotic esophagectomy for esophageal cancer without esophageal traction

 

RATE (n = 102)

Operation time (min)

 Thoracic surgery (range)

181 (115 – 394)

 Blood loss (g) (range)

93 (1 – 530)

Number of Lymph node retrieved

 Upper mediastinal LNs (range)

10 (1 – 29)

 LRLNs (range)

4 (1 – 14)

 Recurrence in Mediastinal LNs (%)

6 (6)

  1. RATE Robot-assisted thoracoscopic esophagectomy, LN Lymph Node, LRLN Left Recurrent Nerve Lymph node