Surgical treatment of adenocarcinoma of esophagogastric junction        LI Guo-li, MAO Qi. Department of Surgery, Jinling Hospital,Nanjing University School of  Medicine,Nanjing 210002,China
Corresponding author: LI Guo-li, E-mail:drguoli@yahoo.com.cn
Abstract    Recently adenocarcinoma of esophagogastric junction has attracted extensive attention for the significant increasing of its incidence. Besides tumour nodemetastasis (TNM) stage and histological subtype, more attention should be paid to the localization of the tumour, which mainly affects the direction of neoplasm metastasis ---to thoracic cavity, abdomen cavity, or both of them involved. The extent of ectomy should also be influenced by the metastatic direction.To adenocarcinomas of esophagogastric junction of different localization, the surgeons should take advisable operative approach, excisional scope, reconstructive style and adjunctive therapy according to preoperative diagnosis.