Introduction Enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) programs provide a format for
multidisciplinary care and has been shown to predictably improve short term outcomes …

Introduction: Esophageal cancer is the fourth most common cause of cancer death in China.
Patients with esophageal cancer are more likely to suffer from malnutrition. The purpose of …

Over the last decades, the treatment of resectable esophageal cancer has evolved into a
multidisciplinary process in which all players are essential for treatment to be successful …

Background A nutritional indicator suitable for predicting complications after esophagectomy
has not been confirmed. The nutritional screening tool CONUT is a potential candidate …

Enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) initiatives in the fields of gastrointestinal and pelvic
surgery have contributed to improved postoperative functional status for patients and …

Objective The purpose of this study was to estimate the economic burden of postoperative
complications after esophagectomy for cancer, in order to optimally allocate resources for …

Patients undergoing complex gastrointestinal surgery are at high risk of major postoperative
complications (eg, anastomotic leakage, sepsis), classified as Clavien-Dindo (CD)≥ IIIa …

Zusammenfassung Hintergrund Die neoadjuvante (Radio-) Chemotherapie [n (R) CT] ist
fester Bestandteil des multimodalen Therapiekonzepts beim fortgeschrittenen …

Background Smoking is one of the risk factors for postoperative morbidity. There were no
studies on the correlation between the duration of smoking cessation and the incidence of …

Background Sarcopenia, the critical depletion of skeletal muscle mass, is an independent
prognostic factor in several tumor entities for treatment-related toxicity and survival. In …