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Esophageal Surgery - Current Principles and Advances is a comprehensive book that covers areas of common interest in surgery. The book presents the latest trends and indications in esophageal disease, providing step-by-step illustrated instructions for both routine and diagnostic procedures. It offers readers a thorough understanding of the principles and advances in esophageal surgery, providing insights into the diagnosis, management, and treatment of various esophageal disorders.

Esophagus --- Esophagectomy. --- Surgery.

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Esophagectomy --- Thoracoscopy --- methods

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This Atlas provides an easy-to-follow operational guide to laparoscopic techniques. It features a wealth of photos to illustrate esophageal carcinoma surgery. Through step-by-step anatomical photographs, it clearly depicts the Ivor-Lewis operative and Ivor-Lewis-Mckeown operative techniques. Using a consistent format, it addresses the clinical anatomy, pre-operative considerations, operative steps, post-operative care, and pearls and pitfalls to make it easy-to-read. The authors emphasize the similarities of the principles and steps between open and laparoscopic surgery, which significantly simplifies the transition from one practice to the other. This Atlas also includes a description of anesthesia techniques, a guide to the use of staplers in laparoscopic surgery, and a comparison of the energy sources available for laparoscopic surgery, while also outlining future developments, e.g. the increasing prevalence of robotic surgery for these procedures. The Atlas offers an essential guide for practitioners and trainees, laparoscopic and thoracoscopic surgeons, and experienced esophageal surgeons who are preparing to change to minimal invasive techniques for the management of esophageal carcinoma. It will also benefit all surgeons who are seeking clear photos detailing how to perform these esophageal carcinoma operations.

Medicine. --- Laparoscopic surgery. --- Medicine & Public Health. --- Minimally Invasive Surgery. --- Minimally invasive surgery. --- Clinical sciences --- Medical profession --- Human biology --- Life sciences --- Medical sciences --- Pathology --- Physicians --- Esophagectomy. --- Esophagus --- Endoscopic surgery. --- Cancer --- Surgery. --- Endosurgery --- Minimal access surgery --- Minimally invasive surgery --- MIS (Minimally invasive surgery) --- Operative endoscopy --- Surgical endoscopy --- Endoscopy --- Microsurgery --- Surgery, Operative --- Surgery

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The purpose of this SI is to provide an overview of recent advances made in the methods used for tissue imaging and characterization, which benefit from using a large range of optical wavelengths. Guerouah et al. has contributed a profound study of the responses of the adult human brain to breath-holding challenges based on hyperspectral near-infrared spectroscopy (hNIRS). Lange et al. contributed a timely and comprehensive review of the features and biomedical and clinical applications of supercontinuum laser sources. Blaney et al. reported the development of a calibration-free hNIRS system that can measure the absolute and broadband absorption and scattering spectra of turbid media. Slooter et al. studied the utility of measuring multiple tissue parameters simultaneously using four optical techniques operating at different wavelengths of light—optical coherence tomography (1300 nm), sidestream darkfield microscopy (530 nm), laser speckle contrast imaging (785 nm), and fluorescence angiography (~800 nm)—in the gastric conduit during esophagectomy. Caredda et al. showed the feasibility of accurately quantifying the oxy- and deoxy-hemoglobin and cytochrome-c-oxidase responses to neuronal activation and obtaining spatial maps of these responses using a setup consisting of a white light source and a hyperspectral or standard RGB camera. It is interest for the developers and potential users of clinical brain and tissue optical monitors, and for researchers studying brain physiology and functional brain activity.

Public health & preventive medicine --- hemodynamic brain mapping --- metabolic brain mapping --- Monte Carlo simulations --- intraoperative imaging --- optical imaging --- hyperspectral imaging --- RGB imaging --- fluorescence imaging --- fluorescence angiography --- indocyanine green (ICG) --- optical coherence tomography (OCT) --- laser speckle contrast imaging (LSCI) --- esophagectomy --- gastric conduit --- Sidestream Darkfield Microscopy (SDF) --- multispectral --- broadband diffuse reflectance spectroscopy --- frequency-domain near-infrared spectroscopy --- dual-slope --- absorption spectra --- supercontinuum laser --- NIRS --- tissue optics --- diffuse optics --- near-infrared spectroscopy --- brain --- BOLD signal --- breath-holding --- cytochrome C oxidase --- n/a

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Recent decades have seen remarkable advances in the treatment of upper gastrointestinal malignancies, i.e., adenocarcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma as well as gastrointestinal stromal and other rare tumors of the esophagus and stomach. While, historically, surgical resection has been the sole treatment for these tumors, multimodal therapies have meanwhile proven their efficacy. At present, pre- and postoperative chemotherapy and radiotherapy, targeted drug therapy, and stage-specific surgical approaches are all indispensable cornerstones of an individualized treatment for upper gastrointestinal malignancies. With such multimodal treatment, better outcomes comprising improved quality of life and prolonged survival have been achieved for patients. However, for many tumor entities and stages, the ideal combination and sequence of treatments is still being evaluated in clinical trials. Moreover, the value of novel approaches such as immunotherapy or robotic surgery remains a matter of research. In this Special Issue of Cancers, up-to-date original research, short communications, and comprehensive review articles on all modalities playing a role in the treatment of upper gastrointestinal malignancies have been published.

Public health & preventive medicine --- gastric cancer --- gastrectomy --- complications --- outcome --- survival --- lymph node ratio --- neoadjuvant chemotherapy --- conversion surgery --- cancer dormancy --- nuclear receptor NR2F1 --- clinical pathways --- gastric surgery --- oncological gastrectomy --- quality of care --- outcomes --- standardization --- adjuvant therapy --- gastrointestinal tract --- genetic diagnosis --- radiosensitivity --- mortality --- failure to rescue --- immunotherapy --- genetics --- esophageal cancer --- multidisciplinary --- gastric/gastroesophageal cancer --- perioperative chemotherapy --- overall survival --- relapse-free survival --- skeletal muscle index --- esophagectomy --- nutritional status --- sarcopenia --- esophageal anastomosis --- minimally invasive surgery --- induction chemotherapy --- chemo-radiotherapy --- neoadjuvant treatment --- esophageal squamous cell carcinoma --- multimodal treatment --- neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy --- definitive chemoradiotherapy --- Lauren histotype --- gastrointestinal stromal tumor --- neuroendocrine tumor --- MALT lymphoma --- mucosal resection --- submucosal dissection --- GIST --- stomach --- neoadjuvant therapy --- imatinib --- organ preservation --- squamous cell esophageal cancer --- gastro-esophageal reflux disease --- Barrett's esophagus --- early adenocarcinoma of esophagus --- endoscopic submucosal dissection --- endoscopic mucosal resection --- gastric cancer --- gastrectomy --- complications --- outcome --- survival --- lymph node ratio --- neoadjuvant chemotherapy --- conversion surgery --- cancer dormancy --- nuclear receptor NR2F1 --- clinical pathways --- gastric surgery --- oncological gastrectomy --- quality of care --- outcomes --- standardization --- adjuvant therapy --- gastrointestinal tract --- genetic diagnosis --- radiosensitivity --- mortality --- failure to rescue --- immunotherapy --- genetics --- esophageal cancer --- multidisciplinary --- gastric/gastroesophageal cancer --- perioperative chemotherapy --- overall survival --- relapse-free survival --- skeletal muscle index --- esophagectomy --- nutritional status --- sarcopenia --- esophageal anastomosis --- minimally invasive surgery --- induction chemotherapy --- chemo-radiotherapy --- neoadjuvant treatment --- esophageal squamous cell carcinoma --- multimodal treatment --- neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy --- definitive chemoradiotherapy --- Lauren histotype --- gastrointestinal stromal tumor --- neuroendocrine tumor --- MALT lymphoma --- mucosal resection --- submucosal dissection --- GIST --- stomach --- neoadjuvant therapy --- imatinib --- organ preservation --- squamous cell esophageal cancer --- gastro-esophageal reflux disease --- Barrett's esophagus --- early adenocarcinoma of esophagus --- endoscopic submucosal dissection --- endoscopic mucosal resection