Lymph node and perinodal tissue tumor involvement in patients with esophagectomy and three-field lymphadenectomy for carcinoma of the esophagus

Journal of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 12-16

  Baba, Masamichi ^a   Aikou, Takashi ^a   Natsugoe, Shoji ^a   Kusano, Chikara ^a   Shimada, Mario ^a   Kimura, Shigeto ^a   Fukumoto, Toshitaka ^a  

^a KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

esophageal carcinoma; lymph node metastasis; perinodal tissue cancer involvement; three field lymphadenectomy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MEDIASTINUM LYMPH NODE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBMUCOSA; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MEDIASTINAL NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM CIRCULATING CELLS; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0031045018     PISSN: 00224790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9098(199701)64:1<12::AID-JSO3>3.0.CO;2-S     Document Type: Article

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