Surgical therapy of primary malignant melanoma of the esophagus

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 63, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1461-1463

  Adili, Farzin ^a,b   Mönig, Stefan P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b Albertus Magnus University   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; ESOPHAGUS TUMOR; HUMAN; MALE; MELANOCYTE; MELANOMA; METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MELANOMA; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0031149934     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(97)00111-2     Document Type: Article

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