Predictors of survival for esophageal cancer patients with and without celiac axis lymphadenopathy: Impact of staging endosonography

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 212-219

  Eloubeidi, Mohamad A ^a,c   Wallace, Michael B ^a   Hoffman, Brenda J ^a   Leveen, Margaret B ^a   Van Velse, Annette ^a   Hawes, Robert H ^a   Reed, Carolyn E ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; COHORT STUDIES; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0034945036     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(01)02616-9     Document Type: Article

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