Quality of Life Associated with Surgery for Esophageal Cancer: Differences between Collar and Intrathoracic Anastomoses

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 355-360

  Schmidt, Christian E ^a   Bestmann, Beate ^a   Küchler, Thomas ^a   Schmid, Andreas ^b   Kremer, Bernd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b Red Cross Hospital   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSCESS; ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FEMALE; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HEALTH STATUS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INSOMNIA; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE PARALYSIS; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PLASTIC SURGERY; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEPSIS; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 1942540591     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-003-7219-x     Document Type: Article

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