Evaluating the rational extent of dissection in radical esophagectomy for invasive carcinoma of the thoracic esophagus

Surgery Today

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 3-8

  Nishimaki, Tadashi ^a   Suzuki, Tsutomu ^a   Tanaka, Yoichi ^a   Nakagawa, Satoru ^a   Aizawa, Kikuo ^a   Hatakeyama, Katsuyoshi ^a  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

clinicopathology; esophageal neoplasm; lymph node metastasis; lymphadenectomy; surgical oncology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NECK METASTASIS; PROGNOSIS; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0031013372     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01366932     Document Type: Article

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