Nodal staging: Number or site of nodes? How to improve accuracy? Is FNA always necessary? Junctional tumors - What's N and what's M?

Endoscopy

Volumn 38, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2006, Pages

  Vazquez Sequeiros, Enrique ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

^b NONE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CANCER STAGING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; METASTASIS; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ALGORITHMS; AREA UNDER CURVE; BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; NEOPLASM STAGING; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33745900770     PISSN: 0013726X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2006-946642     Document Type: Article

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