Concurrent preoperative chemoradiotherapy for stage III or IV esophageal squamous carcinoma

Oncology Reports

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1121-1126

  Osaka, Yoshiaki ^a   Takagi, Yu ^a   Tsuchida, Akihiko ^a   Hoshino, Sumito ^a   Tachibana, Shingo ^a   Shinohara, Motoo ^a   Aoki, Tatsuya ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Esophageal squamous carcinoma; Preoperative chemoradiation therapy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; ESOPHAGUS TUMOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER DISEASE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SURVIVAL RATE; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER DISEASES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 16544363718     PISSN: 1021335X     EISSN: 17912431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/or.12.5.1121     Document Type: Article

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