SWANGTE KONYAK

P1.136. Toward Vagal-Sparing Esophagectomy: Defining Surgically Reproducible Zones of Pulmonary Autonomic Preservation

Abstract Topic Esophageal Cancer: Other Background Pulmonary complications remain a major cause of morbidity after transthoracic esophagectomy. Injury to pulmonary vagal branches during mediastinal lymphadenectomy may contribute to postoperative respiratory dysfunction. Precise s...