Simultaneous surgery for synchronous double cancers of the esophagus and lung is so invasive that minimally invasive surgical procedures are preferred. For left lung cancer, there are few reports on simultaneous surgery due to the difficulty of performing radical esophagectomy only via the left thoracic approach and the high invasiveness of bilateral thoracotomy.
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