Adenocarcinomas of the distal oesophagus and gastric cardia are one clinical entity

British Journal of Surgery

Volumn 86, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 529-535

  Wijnhoven, B P L ^b   Siersema, P D ^a   Hop, W C J ^a   Van Dekken, H ^a   Tilanus, H W ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b University Hospital Dijkzigt ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BARRETT ESOPHAGUS; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CARDIA; CELIAC ARTERY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; ESOPHAGUS METASTASIS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL CARCINOMA; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STOMACH CARCINOMA;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIA; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0142090338     PISSN: 00071323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2168.1999.01082.x     Document Type: Article

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