Management of Respiratory Failure Caused by COVID-19 after Thoracoscopic Esophagectomy.

BACKGROUND Since December 2019, with the first descriptions of cases of pneumonia caused by the new coronavirus in Wuhan, China, the virus causing this infection has spread globally (). One of the main characteristics of this new virus is its high transmissibility (). Since February 2020, when the first coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) case was reported in Brazil, a series of changes have been incorporated for the treatment of cancer patients with COVID-19. In particular, for patients with esophageal cancer, [...]