Case report: Primary malignant melanoma of the esophagus: Long-term survival following pre- and postoperative adjuvant hormone/chemotherapy

Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Volumn 49, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1646-1651

  Uetsuka, Hirokazu ^a   Naomoto, Yoshio ^a   Fujiwara, Toshiya ^a   Shirakawa, Yasuhiro ^a   Noguchi, Hirofumi ^a   Yamatsuji, Tomoki ^a   Haisa, Minoru ^a   Matsuoka, Junji ^a   Gunduz, Mehmet ^a   Takubo, Kaiyo ^b   Tanaka, Noriaki ^a  

^a Dept of Gastroenterological Surgery   (Japan)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF GERONTOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

DAC TAM therapy; esophagectomy; long term survival; primary malignant melanoma of the esophagus

Indexed keywords

BETA INTERFERON; CISPLATIN; DACARBAZINE; NIMUSTINE; TAMOXIFEN; ANTINEOPLASTIC HORMONE AGONISTS AND ANTAGONISTS; IMMUNOLOGICAL ADJUVANT;

ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW SUPPRESSION; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; ESOPHAGUS MUCOSA; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; GASTRECTOMY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LABORATORY TEST; LONG TERM CARE; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MALE; MELANOMA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; ESOPHAGUS TUMOR; LYMPHADENECTOMY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW;

ADJUVANTS, IMMUNOLOGIC; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, HORMONAL; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; HUMANS; INTERFERON-BETA; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; TAMOXIFEN;

EID: 16544379998     PISSN: 01632116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:DDAS.0000043379.60295.cb     Document Type: Article

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