Optimum treatment strategy for superficial esophageal cancer: Endoscopic mucosal resection versus radical esophagectomy

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 424-431

  Fujita, Hiromasa ^a   Sueyoshi, Susumu ^a   Yamana, Hideaki ^a   Shinozaki, Koji ^a   Toh, Uhi ^a   Tanaka, Yuichi ^a   Mine, Takashi ^a   Kubota, Masahiro ^a   Shirouzu, Kazuo ^a   Toyonaga, Atsushi ^a   Harada, Hiroshi ^a   Ban, Sigeki ^a   Watanabe, Masahide ^a   Toda, Yukihiko ^a   Tabuchi, Emi ^a   Hayabuchi, Naofumi ^a   Inutsuka, Hiroki ^a  

^a KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER SURVIVAL; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; ESOPHAGUS MUCOSA; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SUBMUCOSA; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VITAL STAIN;

AGED; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROGNOSIS; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 17744365062     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002680020053     Document Type: Article

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