1 Department of Thoracic Surgery, Section of Esophageal Surgery, Shanghai Chest Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.
2 Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, West Virginia University, School of Medicine, Morgantown, WV, USA.
3 Department of Thoracic Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, China.
4 Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
5 Division of Thoracic Surgery, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
6 Department of Thoracic Surgery, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.
7 Department of Esophageal Surgery, National Cancer Center Hospital East, Chiba, Japan.
8 Department of Esophageal Cancer, Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, Tianjin, China.
9 Department of Thoracic Surgery, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, China.
10 Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Jinling Hospital, Medical Scholl of Nanjing University, Nanjing, China.
11 Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, UT Southwestern, Dallas, TX, USA.
12 Section of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery and Medical Specialties, Policlinico University Hospital, University of Catania, Catania, Italy.
13 Department of Surgery, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA.
14 Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgical, Medical, Molecular, Pathology and Critical Care, University Hospital of Pisa, Pisa, Italy.
15 Division of Thoracic Surgery, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital-Linkou, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan.
16 Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
17 Department of Thoracic Surgery, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.
18 Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Thoracic Medicine and Surgery, Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
19 Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.