Frequency and clinical impact of lymph node micrometastasis and tumor cell microinvolvement in patients with adenocarcinoma of the esophagogastric junction

Cancer

Volumn 89, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1874-1882

  Mueller, James D ^a   Stein, Hubert J ^a   Oyang, Tao ^a   Natsugoe, Shoji ^b   Feith, Marcus ^a   Werner, Martin ^c   Rudiger Siewert J ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adenocarcinoma; Esophagus; Immunohistochemistry; Lymph nodes; Micrometastases; Stomach

Indexed keywords

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SIZE; CANCER SURVIVAL; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH CARCINOMA; TUMOR CELL;

EID: 0034329388     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1097-0142(20001101)89:9<1874::AID-CNCR2>3.3.CO;2-D     Document Type: Article

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