Surgical Treatment of Cancer of the Thoracic Esophagus in Association with a Major Pulmonary Operation

Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Volumn 185, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 520-524

  Matsubara, Toshiki ^a   Ueda, Mamoru ^a   Takahashi, Takashi ^a   Nakajima, Toshifusa ^a   Nishi, Mitsumasa ^a  

^a CANCER INSTITUTE HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; ESOPHAGUS TUMOR; HUMAN; LUNG; LUNG RESECTION; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; LUNG TUMOR; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; MULTIPLE CANCER; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS; THORAX SURGERY;

COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; NEOPLASMS, MULTIPLE PRIMARY; PNEUMONECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; THORACOPLASTY; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 0031298161     PISSN: 10727515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s1072-7515(97)00102-6     Document Type: Article

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