Prognostic factors in patients with squamous oesophageal cancer associated with solitary lymph node metastasis after oesophagectomy and extended lymphadenectomy

Oncology Reports

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 75-80

  Takemura, Masashi ^a   Osugi, Harushi ^a   Takada, Nobuyasu ^a   Kinoshita, Hiroaki ^a   Higashino, Masayuki ^a  

^a OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Lymphadenectomy; Oesophagectomy; Squamous oesophageal cancer

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; ESOPHAGUS TUMOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MALE; METASTASIS; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROGNOSIS; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SURVIVAL RATE; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

AGED; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 1842856612     PISSN: 1021335X     EISSN: 17912431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/or.10.1.75     Document Type: Article

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