# Drainless Robot-assisted Minimally Invasive Esophagectomy

> **NCT05553795** · NA · TERMINATED · sponsor: **Technische Universität Dresden** · enrollment: 49 (actual)

## Conditions studied

- Esophageal Cancer

## Interventions

- **PROCEDURE:** Early removal of chest drain
- **PROCEDURE:** Chest drain

## Key facts

- **NCT ID:** NCT05553795
- **Lead sponsor:** Technische Universität Dresden
- **Sponsor class:** OTHER
- **Phase:** NA
- **Study type:** INTERVENTIONAL
- **Status:** TERMINATED
- **Start date:** 2023-04-19
- **Primary completion:** 2024-05-21
- **Final completion:** 2024-05-21
- **Target enrollment:** 49 (ACTUAL)
- **Why stopped:** Following a safety analysis and assessment of the complications encountered by external experts, it was decided to terminate recruitment prematurely
- **Last updated:** 2024-06-13

## Collaborators

- [object Object]

## Primary source

ClinicalTrials.gov registry: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT05553795

## Citation

> US National Library of Medicine, ClinicalTrials.gov registration NCT05553795, "Drainless Robot-assisted Minimally Invasive Esophagectomy". Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-06-25 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/clinical/NCT05553795. Licensed CC0.

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