En bloc and standard esophagectomies by thoracoscopy

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 769-770

  Collard, Jean Marie ^a,b   Lengele, Benoit ^a   Otte, Jean Bernard ^a   Kestens, Paul Jacques ^a  

^a Louvain Medical School   (Belgium)

^b CLINIQUES UNIVERSITAIRES SAINT LUC   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAUSTIC BURN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; ESOPHAGUS STENOSIS; HUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORACOSCOPY; ARTICLE; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; ENDOSCOPY; ESOPHAGUS TUMOR; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; LUNG TUMOR; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; METASTASIS; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; SURVIVAL RATE; THORACOTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; ENDOSCOPY; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; SURVIVAL RATE; THORACOSCOPY; THORACOTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0030077027     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0003-4975(95)00951-5     Document Type: Article

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