Experienced surgeons means fewer splenic injuries in operations for esophageal cancer
Patients operated on for esophageal cancer by surgeons who often perform such operations run a lower risk of splenic injury during the operation and of needing to have their spleen removed, an intervention which increases the risk of serious infection and death. This is shown by an extensive new study from Karolinska Institutet which has been published in the scientific journal Annals of Surgery. These results lend additional support to the view that surgery for esophageal cancer ought to be performed by a smaller number of surgeons, who will gain the opportunity to carry out more operations,