食管癌经胸手术切除仍是目前主要治疗方法之一。近年来,国外报道有用非开胸食管内翻拔脱术治疗食管、贲门癌者。国内只见有吴听齐等1979年报告使用本术式治疗贲门癌10例。我们于1978年6月至1979年5月使用本术式治疗胸颈段食管癌二例:一例女性(64 Thoracic resection of esophageal cancer is still one of the main treatments. In recent years, foreign countries have reported the use of non-thoracotomy esophagectomy for the treatment of esophageal and cardiac cancers. In the country, only Wu et al. reported that in 1979, 10 cases of cardiac cancer were treated with this technique. We used this technique to treat two cases of thoracic and cervical esophageal cancer from June 1978 to May 1979: one case of women (64