A strategy for determining which thoracic esophageal cancer patients should undergo cervical lymph node dissection

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 80, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1881-1886

  Nagatani, Shiro ^a   Shimada, Yutaka ^a   Kondo, Masato ^a   Kaganoi, Junichi ^a   Maeda, Masato ^a   Watanabe, Go ^a   Imamura, Masayuki ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EOSIN; HEMATOXYLIN; RNA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CERVICAL LYMPH NODE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESOPHAGEAL SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECURRENT DISEASE; STAINING; THORAX CANCER;

CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY;

EID: 26844573352     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2005.04.051     Document Type: Article

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