Total esophagectomy versus proximal esophagectomy for esophageal cancer at the cervicothoracic junction

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 486-491

  Fujita, Hiromasa ^a   Kakegawa, Teruo ^a   Yamana, Hideaki ^a   Sueyoshi, Susumu ^a   Hikita, Shigeki ^a   Mine, Takashi ^a   Tanaka, Yuichi ^a   Ishikawa, Hiroto ^a   Shirouzu, Kazuo ^a   Mori, Kazunori ^a   Inoue, Yojiro ^a   Tanabe, Hiroko Yanaga ^a   Kiyokawa, Kensuke ^a   Tai, Yoshiaki ^a   Inutsuka, Hiroki ^a  

^a KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LARYNGECTOMY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MALE; MORBIDITY; RECURRENCE RISK; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 13044313474     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00012336     Document Type: Article

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