Surgical management of esophagogastric junction tumors

Figure 1 Overall 10-year survival rate of patients with resected adenocarcinoma of the esophagogastric junction. Patients with complete macroscopic and microscopic tumor resection (R0 resection) versus patients with resection (R1/R2 resection) (Date of the Chirurgische Klinik und Poliklinik, Klinikum rechts der lsar der TU Munchen 1982-1999).

Figure 2 Ten-year survival rate of patients with R0-resected true carcinoma of the gastric cardia (AEG Type-II). Radical transmediastinal esophagectomy versus extend total gastrectomy (Date of the Chirurgische Klinik und Poliklinik, Klinikum rechts der lsar der TU Munchen 1982-1999).