Management for patients with advanced T4 epidermoid carcinoma of the esophagus

Journal of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 22-29

  Wang, Liang Shun ^a,b   Chi, Kwan Hwa ^a   Hu, Maw Hwa ^a   Fahn, Huei Jyh ^a   Huang, Min Hsiung ^a  

^a TAIPEI VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

esophageal carcinoma; esophagectomy; radiochemotherapy

Indexed keywords

ANTIEMETIC AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CISPLATIN; DEXAMETHASONE; FLUOROURACIL; FOLINIC ACID; FUROSEMIDE; HYDROCORTISONE; METOCLOPRAMIDE; ONDANSETRON; PROCHLORPERAZINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW TOXICITY; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TOXICITY; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; JEJUNOSTOMY; MALE; NEPHROTOXICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TRACHEOESOPHAGEAL FISTULA; VOMITING;

AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; CISPLATIN; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; FEMALE; FLUOROURACIL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LEUCOVORIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0029863764     PISSN: 00224790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9098(199605)62:1<22::AID-JSO5>3.0.CO;2-T     Document Type: Article

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