Squamous cell carcinoma and adenocarcinoma of the lower third of the esophagus and gastric cardia: Similarities and differences

Diseases of the Esophagus

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 290-295

  Alexandrou, A ^a   Davis, P A ^a   Law, S ^a   Murphy, S ^a   Whooley, B P ^a   Wong, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; ATELECTASIS; BRONCHOPNEUMONIA; BRONCHOSPASM; BYPASS SURGERY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CARDIA CARCINOMA; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHYLOTHORAX; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; ESOPHAGUS INTUBATION; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FEMALE; GANGRENE; GASTRECTOMY; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART FAILURE; HEART INFARCTION; HOARSENESS; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; LASER SURGERY; LIVER FAILURE; LONG TERM CARE; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURA EMPYEMA; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SHOCK LUNG; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STOMACH BYPASS; STOMACH INTUBATION; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADENOCARCINOMA; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CARDIA; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0036971794     PISSN: 11208694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1442-2050.2002.00272.x     Document Type: Article

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