The Annals of thoracic surgery | 2021
Minimal Invasive Esophagectomy: Feasibility in esophageal carcinoma with Inferior vena cava anomaly.
Abstract
Inferior vena cava (IVC) and azygos vein anomaly is very rare. Only few cases reports are available for difficult esophagectomy in patients of ca esophagus with IVC anomaly. Minimal invasive esophagectomy with preservation of azygos vein in such patients is technically challenging and not tried before. We report a case of 44-year-old female diagnosed as middle thoracic esophageal carcinoma with double IVC and dilated azygos vein. Thus minimal invasive surgery is feasible in such patients but requires high technical skills and great experience to carry out this kind of surgery and it should only be attempted by a multidisciplinary team.