Outcomes of extended radical esophagectomy for thoracic esophageal cancer

Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Volumn 186, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 306-312

  Nishimaki, Tadashi ^a   Suzuki, Tsutomu ^a   Suzuki, Satoshi ^a   Kuwabara, Shirou ^a   Hatakeyama, Katsuyoshi ^a  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER STAGING; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FEMALE; HEPATORENAL SYNDROME; HUMAN; LUNG DISEASE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; PATIENT SELECTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOCAL CORD PARALYSIS;

CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOCAL CORD PARALYSIS;

EID: 0031914661     PISSN: 10727515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1072-7515(98)00013-1     Document Type: Article

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