Abstract
Although different neoadjuvant therapies are being developed, surgical treatment remains the only curative therapy for esophageal cancer. For years, the procedure of choice for esophageal cancer was the Ivor-Lewis1 operation, later modified, as three-stage esophagectomy by McKeown.2 With this modified procedure, the esophagus is resected by means of a right-sided thoracotomy combined with a laparotomy using cervical esophagogastric anastomosis. The other frequently used procedure is the transhiatal esophageal resection according to Orringer and Sloan,3 in which a thoracotomy is avoided.
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