Mariette C, et al. - Researchers compared hybrid minimally invasive esophagectomy with open esophagectomy in terms of postoperative complications in this multicenter, open-label, randomized, controlled trial involving patients 18 to 75 years of age with resectable cancer of the middle or lower third of the esophagus. They randomly assigned 103 patients to the hybrid-procedure group and 104 to the open-procedure group between October 2009 and April 2012. Outcomes revealed a lower incidence of intraoperative and postoperative major complications, specifically pulmonary complications, among those who underwent hybrid minimally invasive esophagectomy than those undergoing open esophagectomy, without compromising overall and disease-free survival over a period of 3 years.