Pattern of recurrence after extended radical esophagectomy with three- field lymph node dissection for squamous cell carcinoma in the thoracic esophagus

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 275-281

  Bhansali, Mehul S ^a   Fujita, Hiromasa ^a   Kakegawa, Teruo ^a   Yamana, Hideaki ^a   Ono, Takafumi ^a   Hikita, Shigeki ^a   Toh, Yuji ^a   Fujii, Teruhiko ^a   Tou, Uhi ^a   Shirouzu, Kazuo ^a  

^a KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CELL SURVIVAL; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PROGNOSIS; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK DISSECTION; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PROGNOSIS; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0031045914     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002689900228     Document Type: Article

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