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Visceral, Vascular, Pediatric and Transplantation Surgery, 66421 Homburg, Germany, is cordially thanked
for providing supervision for Dr. T. Kolokotronis doctoral thesis and giving his permission to collect data.

Authors’ contributions
The first author: Kolokotronis T
The last author: Galanis M

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Conflicts of interest
Both authors declared that there are no conflicts of interest.

Ethical approval and consent to participate
This publication is part of the doctoral thesis of Kolokotronis T with the title: “Postoperative outcome and
overall survival after surgery for esophageal cancer; a retrospective, single- center experience of 320 patients
encompassing 14 years”.

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