Esophagectomy: Is it necessary after chemoradiotherapy for a locally advanced T4 esophageal cancer? Prospective nonrandomized trial comparing chemoradiotherapy with surgery versus without surgery

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 25-30

  Fujita, Hiromasa ^a   Sueyoshi, Susumu ^a   Tanaka, Toshiaki ^a   Tanaka, Yuichi ^a   Matono, Satoru ^a   Mori, Naoki ^a   Shirouzu, Kazuo ^a   Yamana, Hideaki ^a   Suzuki, Gen ^a   Hayabuchi, Naofumi ^a   Matsui, Masasuke ^b  

^a KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; FLUOROURACIL;

ADULT; AGED; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD TOXICITY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DRUG EFFICACY; ESOPHAGOBRONCHIAL FISTULA; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FEVER; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KIDNEY DISEASE; LEUKOPENIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PNEUMONIA; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIATION DOSE; SEPSIS; SIDE EFFECT; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DOSE FRACTIONATION; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; HUMANS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 20244365347     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-004-7590-2     Document Type: Article

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