Routine EUS-guided FNA for preoperative nodal staging in patients with esophageal carcinoma: Is the juice worth the squeeze?

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 212-214

  Eloubeidi, Mohamad A ^a  

^a University of Alabama   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EDITORIAL; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY;

BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; CARCINOMA; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PREOPERATIVE CARE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 30944448811     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2005.10.009     Document Type: Editorial

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