The adult human esophagus is an 18- to 25-cm long muscular tube that has cervical, thoracic, and abdominal parts. The esophagus wall is composed of striated muscle in the upper part, smooth muscle ...

Thirdly, the rate of thoracic-duct lymph flow averaged three to six times greater than the normal rate of 1.0 ml. a minute found in patients without cirrhosis.

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The esophagus is dissected below the tracheal bifurcation, a drain is placed around it, and the dissection is extended to the level of the diaphragm, followed by clipping the thoracic duct.

The locations of the lesions were the cervical esophagus in two lesions, upper thoracic esophagus in 12 lesions, middle thoracic esophagus in 35 lesions, and lower thoracic esophagus in 19 lesions.

The thoracic duct, azygos vein, ipsilateral pleura, and all periesophageal tissue in the mediastinum were dissected en bloc.

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Specific to the right supraclavicular lymph node is the drainage of the mid-section of the chest, esophagus, and lungs, while the left lymph node drains the thoracic duct, the abdomen, and thorax.