Postoperative complications after Minimally Invasive transCervical oEsophagectomy (MICE) versus Transthoracic Minimally Invasive oEsophagectomy (TMIE): an inverse probability of treatment weighted analysis.

However, its advantages over conventional Transthoracic Minimally Invasive oEsophagectomy (TMIE) remain unclear.

The primary outcome was the incidence of postoperative complications within 30 days.

Inverse probability of treatment weighting (inverse probability of treatment weighting) was used to account for confounding between the groups.

Although overall postoperative complication rates were higher after MICE, this difference was mainly attributable to an increased incidence of mostly transient recurrent laryngeal nerve palsy, which is inevitably associated with the transcervical approach.