Surgery and clinicopathological features of gastric adenocarcinoma involving the esophago-gastric junction

Kurume Medical Journal

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 73-79

  Koufuji, Kikuo ^a   Shirouzu, Kazuo ^a   Aoyagi, Keishirou ^a   Yano, Shojirou ^a   Miyagi, Motoshi ^a   Imaizumi, Takuya ^a   Takeda, Jinryo ^a  

^a KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cardia; Esophageal invasion; Esophago gastric junction; Gastric adenocarcinoma; Thoracotomy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAPHRAGM; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INCIDENCE; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PANCREAS RESECTION; SPLEEN ARTERY; SPLENECTOMY; STOMACH ADENOCARCINOMA; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGOGASTRIC JUNCTION; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 32844472489     PISSN: 00235679     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2739/kurumemedj.52.73     Document Type: Article

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