Clinical Study
Esophageal Carcinoma Histology Affects Perioperative Morbidity Following Open Esophagogastrectomy
Table 4
Recent studies of morbidity in SCC patients undergoing esophagectomy.
| Author | Year | | SCC % | SCC approach | SCC pulmonary | SCC anastomotic leak | SCC median EBL (mL) | SCC ICU stay (days) | SCC mortality |
| Whooley | 2001 | 710 | 100% | TTE (100%) | 32% | 3.5% | 832 | — | 11% | Ferguson | 2002 | 290 | 34.5% | — | 39% | — | — | — | — | Fang | 2003 | 441 | | 3 Field (100%) | 7.3% | 32.65% | 587.5–642.1 | — | 2.5% | Law | 2004 | 421 | 100% | TTE (83%) | 15.9% | 3.1% | 700 | — | 1.4% | Alexiou | 2006 | 621 | 31.72% | TTE (55%) | 18.3% | 8.6% | — | — | 8.1% | Woodall | 2007 | 73 | 29% | TTE (100%) | 28.57% | 26.32% | 600 | 6 | 0% |
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