All pathological T4 esophageal carcinomas should be categorized as stage IV

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 49, Issue 45, 2002, Pages 694-698

  Tabira, Yoichi ^a   Yasunaga, Masahiro ^a   Nakano, Kan Yu ^a   Sakaguchi, Tomonori ^a   Nagamoto, Nobuhide ^a   Matsushita, Hisayuki ^a   Fukunaga, Yoshitaka ^a  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Esophageal Neoplasm; TNM classifiation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER INVASION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; ESOPHAGUS TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; SURVIVAL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0036016666     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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