Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy before Multimodality Therapy in Patients with Esophageal Cancer

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 76, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1694-1698

  Margolis, Marc ^a   Alexander, Pendleton ^a,b   Trachiotis, Gregory D ^a   Gharagozloo, Farid ^a   Lipman, Timothy ^a   Weiman, Darryl S ^c   Miller, Daniel L ^c   Putnam Jr , Joe B ^c  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Cardiothoracic Surgery   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS; ARTICLE; CANCER SURVIVAL; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; ENTERIC FEEDING; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; ESOPHAGUS DILATATION; ESOPHAGUS STRICTURE; GASTROSTOMY; HUMAN; LASER SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METASTASIS; NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAFETY; STOMACH EMPTYING; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0242552161     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(02)04890-7     Document Type: Article

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