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The aim of the study was to explore the opinion of European surgeons on the centralization of surgery for benign esophageal diseases. A web-based questionnaire, developed through a modified Delphi process, was administered to general and thoracic surgeons of 33 European surgical societies. There were 791 complete responses (98.5%), in 59.2% of respondents, the age ranged between 41 and 60\u00a0years, 60.3% of respondents worked in tertiary centers. In 2017, the number of major surgical procedures performed for any esophageal disease by respondents was &amp;lt;10 for 56.5% and\u2009&amp;gt;100 for 4.5%; in responder\u2019s hospitals procedures number was &amp;lt;10 in 27% and\u2009&amp;gt;100 in 15%. 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