Occult esophageal adenocarcinoma: Extent of disease and implications for effective therapy

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 230, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 433-440

  Nigro, John J ^a   Hagen, Jeffrey A ^b   DeMeester, Tom R ^a   DeMeester, Steven R ^b   Theisen, Jorg ^a   Peters, Jeffrey H ^a   Kiyabu, Milton ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; CANCER GRADING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; OCCULT CANCER; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BARRETT ESOPHAGUS; BIOPSY; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0033510924     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000658-199909000-00015     Document Type: Conference Paper

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