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Upper mediastinal lymph node dissection for esophageal cancer through a thoracoscopic approach

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  1. Department of Surgery, Kyoto University, 54 Shogoin Kawara-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-8507, Japan

    Atsushi Itami, Go Watanabe, Eiji Tanaka, Shinya Nakayama, Akihisa Fujimoto, Masato Kondo, Masayuki Nakau, Hiroshi Okabe, Seiji Satoh & Yoshiharu Sakai

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Itami, A., Watanabe, G., Tanaka, E. et al. Upper mediastinal lymph node dissection for esophageal cancer through a thoracoscopic approach. Surg Endosc 22, 2741 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00464-008-0106-7

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