Advanced esophageal cancer with esophago-bronchial fistula successfully treated by chemoradiation therapy with additional endoscopic resection: A case report

Japanese Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 59-63

  Morihiro, Masato ^a   Boku, Narikazu ^a   Ohtsu, Atsushi ^a   Miyamoto, Shin'ichi ^a   Ishikura, Satoshi ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL EAST   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bronchial fistula; Chemoradiation; Endoscopic resection; Esophageal cancer

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; FLUOROURACIL; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CF REGIMEN;

ADENOSQUAMOUS CARCINOMA; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC POLYPECTOMY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; ESOPHAGOBRONCHIAL FISTULA; ESOPHAGOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; TUMOR BIOPSY; BRONCHUS FISTULA; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; ESOPHAGUS FISTULA; ESOPHAGUS TUMOR; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION DOSE; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BRONCHIAL FISTULA; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CISPLATIN; ESOPHAGEAL FISTULA; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; FLUOROURACIL; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE;

EID: 0036481206     PISSN: 03682811     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jjco/hyf016     Document Type: Article

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