Prospective comparison of endoscopy, endosonography and computed tomography for staging of tumours of the oesophagus and gastric cardia

Digestion

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 230-236

  Kienle, Peter ^a   Buhl, Klaus ^a   Kuntz, Christian ^a   Düx, Markus ^a   Hartmann, Christine ^a   Axel, Benner ^b   Herfarth, Christian ^a   Lehnert, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cardial tumours; Computed tomography; Endosonography; Macroscopic endoscopy; Oesophageal tumours; Staging

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CARDIA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPY; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEROSA; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STOMACH CANCER;

BIOPSY; CARDIA; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; GASTROSCOPY; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0038701724     PISSN: 00122823     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000068360     Document Type: Article

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