Prognostic value of laparoscopic ultrasound in patients with gastro-esophageal cancer

Diseases of the Esophagus

Volumn 14, Issue 3-4, 2001, Pages 223-226

  Flett, M E ^a   Lim, M N ^a   Bruce, D ^a   Campbell, S H ^a   Park, K G M ^a  

^a ABERDEEN ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPY; LONG TERM CARE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; PREDICTION; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; STOMACH CANCER; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; COHORT STUDIES; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGOGASTRIC JUNCTION; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0035717643     PISSN: 11208694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1442-2050.2001.00188.x     Document Type: Article

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