Local and systemic treatment in small cell carcinoma of the esophagus

Oncology Reports

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 187-192

  Maier, Alfred ^a,c   Woltsche, Michael ^b   Fell, Birgit ^a   Prettenhofer, Ulrike ^a   Domej, Wolfgang ^a   Röger, Gabriele M ^b   Pinter, Hans ^a   Smolle Jüttner, Freyja M ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b Department of Pulmonology   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Esophagus; Small cell carcinoma

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; ESOPHAGUS TUMOR; HUMAN; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; SMALL CELL CARCINOMA;

AGED; BRACHYTHERAPY; CARCINOMA, SMALL CELL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY;

EID: 0033629471     PISSN: 1021335X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/or.7.1.187     Document Type: Article

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