Surgical approach and the impact of epidural analgesia on survival after esophagectomy for cancer: A population-based retrospective cohort study

• Kenneth C. Cummings III,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Anesthesiology Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Anesthesiology, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

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• Tzuyung Doug Kou,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Quantitative and Population Health Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

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• Amitabh Chak,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

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• Mark D. Schluchter,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Quantitative and Population Health Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

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• Seunghee Margevicius,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation

  Affiliations Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Quantitative and Population Health Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

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• Gregory S. Cooper,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

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• Neal J. Meropol,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Flatiron Health, New York, New York, United States of America

  Affiliation Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

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• Yaron Perry,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Surgery, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Surgery, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

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• Philip A. Linden,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Surgery, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Surgery, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

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• Linda C. Cummings

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: linda.cummings@case.edu

  Affiliations Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8767-2795

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