Introduction

Esophagus resection may be the adequate treatment in selected cases of benign esophageal diseases, but the most frequent indications for esophageal resection are the high grade dysplasia of the Barrett esophagus and the non metastasized esophageal cancer.

Prognosis of patients with esophageal cancer remains poor: only 56% of the patients presented with esophageal cancer have resectable disease with an overall five-years survival rate of 10% while the five-years survival rate among operated patients is still only 18%. [1] The only curative therapy remains surgery. For years the procedure of choice was the Ivor-Lewis operation, later modified by McKeown, in which the tumor is ...