Clinicopathologic and immunohistochemical features of surgically resected small cell carcinoma of the esophagus

Oncology Reports

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1245-1249

  Osugi, Harushi ^a   Takemura, Masashi ^a   Morimura, Keiichirou ^a   Kaneko, Masahiro ^a   Higashino, Masayuki ^a   Takada, Nobuyasu ^a   Lee, Sigeru ^a   Kinoshita, Hiroaki ^a  

^a OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Esophagectomy; Immunohistochemical evaluation; Small cell carcinoma of the esophagus; Survival

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; ESOPHAGUS; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; ESOPHAGUS TUMOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROGNOSIS; SMALL CELL CARCINOMA; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

AGED; CARCINOMA, SMALL CELL; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; ESOPHAGUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; INCIDENCE; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 0036833790     PISSN: 1021335X     EISSN: 17912431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/or.9.6.1245     Document Type: Article

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