Significance of routine annual esophagram for early detection of carcinoma of the esophagus

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 44, Issue 14, 1997, Pages 539-545

  Ohno, Shinji ^a   Kabashima, Akira ^a   Tomoda, Masaaki ^a   Morita, Masaru ^b   Kakeji, Yoshihiro ^a   Kitamura, Kaoru ^a   Kuwano, Hiroyuki ^a   Maehara, Yoshihiko ^a   Sugimachi, Keizo ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL KYUSHU CANCER CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Esophageal cancer; Esophagram

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; DOUBLE CONTRAST RADIOGRAPHY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ESOPHAGOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIME; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; ESOPHAGUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEMATEMESIS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; PHARYNGECTOMY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0030997187     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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