Erratum to laparoscopic needle catheter jejunostomy by using a double semipurse string suture method in minimally invasive Ivor Lewis esophagectomy.

[This corrects the article DOI: 10.21037/jtd.2020.01.53.]. 2020 Journal of Thoracic Disease. All rights reserved.

Laparoscopic needle catheter jejunostomy by using a double semipurse string suture method in minimally invasive Ivor Lewis esophagectomy

This article that appeared on Page: 240-248, Vol 12, No 3 (March 2020) Issue of the Journal of Thoracic Disease (JTD) (1), contained three mistakes.

The details are as followings:

On the second line of the methods paragraph on page 240, and in the first sentence of the paragraph of methods on page 241, “March 2014” need to be corrected as “March 2011”.

On page 241, in the paragraph of methods, the first sentence “…… receiving MIILE in our hospital” should be corrected as “…… receiving MIILE performed by Dr. Wu’s team”

On page 243, in Table 1, “stage III” should be revised as “stage III/IV”.

The corrected version of Table 1 is presented here ().

Table 1

Patient basic characteristics and postoperative clinical data

Variable	n=206
Age (years)	64.61±8.12
Sex (male:female)	186:20
Tumor pathology, n (%)
Squamous cell carcinoma	184 (89.32)
Adenocarcinoma	12 (5.83)
Others	10 (4.85)
Tumor location, n (%)
Middle esophagus	86 (41.75)
Lower esophagus	109 (52.91)
Gastro-esophageal junction	11 (5.34)
Prior abdominal surgery, n (%)	27 (13.11)
Body mass index (kg/m2)	21.80±2.70
Tumor stage*, n (%)
Stage 0/I	42 (20.39)
Stage II	75 (36.41)
Stage III/IV	89 (43.20)
Operative time of catheter jejunostomy (min)	10.56±2.04
Postoperative hospitalization time (days)	13.11±7.22
Starting time of enteral nutrition support (days)	1–3
Retention time of jejunostomy tube (days)	96.52±10.45

Data are shown as n (%) or mean ± SD. *, according to TNM staging standard of esophageal cancer in AJCC (7th edition).

The authors regret the error.