Lymph node staging of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma in patients with and without neoadjuvant radiochemotherapy: Histomorphologic analysis

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 584-587

  Schröder, Wolfgang ^a   Baldus, Stephan E ^a   Mönig, Stefan P ^a   Beckurts, Tobias K E ^a   Dienes, Hans P ^a   Hölscher, Arnulf H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PREOPERATIVE TREATMENT; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; ADJUVANT THERAPY; ESOPHAGUS TUMOR; LYMPH NODE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; NEOPLASM STAGING;

EID: 0036562447     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-001-0271-5     Document Type: Article

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