Adenocarcinoma of the gastroesophageal junction in Japan: Relevance of Siewert's classification applied to 177 cases resected at a single institution

Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Volumn 189, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 594-601

  Kodera, Yasuhiro ^a   Yamamura, Yoshitaka ^a   Shimizu, Yasuhiro ^a   Torii, Akihito ^a   Hirai, Takashi ^a   Yasui, Kenzo ^a   Morimoto, Takeshi ^a   Kato, Tomoyuki ^a  

^a AICHI CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CARDIA CARCINOMA; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; JAPAN; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; STOMACH ADENOCARCINOMA; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADENOCARCINOMA; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ESOPHAGOGASTRIC JUNCTION; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HUMANS; JAPAN; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032705828     PISSN: 10727515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1072-7515(99)00201-X     Document Type: Article

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