Nakashima Y, et al. - In elderly patients with esophageal cancer, researchers ascertained the impact of sarcopenia on postoperative complications and long-term survival after surgery for esophageal cancer. A significantly higher incidence of anastomotic leak and in-hospital death was noted in the elderly sarcopenia group than in the elderly nonsarcopenia group. In patients with sarcopenia, the overall survival rate was noted to be correlated with a significantly poor prognosis in the elderly group. Sarcopenia was demonstrated to be a risk factor for an anastomotic leak and was an unfavorable prognostic factor for survival in multivariate analysis. The young group showed no such correlations between sarcopenia and surgical outcomes.