Survival and clinical evaluation of salvage operation for cervical lymph node recurrence in esophageal cancer

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 52, Issue 63, 2005, Pages 796-799

  Komatsu, Shuhei ^a,b   Shioaki, Yasuhiro ^a   Ichikawa, Daisuke ^a,b   Hamashima, Takashi ^a   Kan, Keitaro ^a   Ueshima, Yasuo ^a   Koide, Kazuma ^a   Lee, Chol Joo ^a   Ikeda, Eito ^a   Mutoh, Fumitaka ^a   Kurioka, Hideaki ^a   Oka, Takahiro ^a   Yamagishi, Hisakazu ^b  

^a KYOTO FIRST RED CROSS HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Disease free interval; Lymph node numbers; Palliation; Recurrent laryngeal nerve palsy; Supraclavicular lymph node

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; FLUOROURACIL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER INVASION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CERVICAL LYMPH NODE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; MORBIDITY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION DOSE; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE PALSY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SALVAGE THERAPY; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT INDICATION;

AGED; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; REOPERATION; SALVAGE THERAPY;

EID: 20644446671     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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