Optimal lymphadenectomy for squamous cell carcinoma in the thoracic esophagus: Comparing the short- and long-term outcome among the four types of lymphadenectomy

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 571-579

  Fujita, Hiromasa ^a   Sueyoshi, Susumu ^a   Tanaka, Toshiaki ^a   Fujii, Teruhiko ^a   Toh, Uhi ^a   Mine, Takashi ^a   Sasahara, Hiroko ^a   Sudo, Tomoya ^a   Matono, Satoru ^a   Yamana, Hideaki ^a   Shirouzu, Kazuo ^a  

^a KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ARTICLE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; ISCHEMIA; JAPAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE PALSY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRACHEA;

AGED; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; MALE; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0041573122     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-003-6913-z     Document Type: Article

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