Changing trends in esophageal cancer: A 15-year experience in a single center

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 93, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 702-705

  Sharma, Virender Kumar ^a,b   Chockalingam, Hema ^a   Hornung, Carlton A ^a   Vasudeva, Rajeev ^a   Howden, Colin W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CAUCASIAN; COHORT ANALYSIS; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEGRO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; COHORT STUDIES; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SOUTH CAROLINA;

EID: 0032081120     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1572-0241.1998.209_a.x     Document Type: Article

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