Which is the best approach for minimally invasive oesophagectomy?

Minimally invasiveness in surgery for oesophageal cancer is common and is a routine part of general thoracic surgical practice. It represents an increasing component of the work load of many thoracic and upper-GI surgeons as demonstrated by the increase number of publications reported in PUBMED at 26 December 2020. Nineteen hundred sixty-three papers on minimally invasive oesophagectomy (MIE) were found, of those 123 (6.2%) were on hybrid oesophagectomy. The invitation from the European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery provides an opportunity to briefly illustrate some existing, practical but very different minimally invasive surgical...