Anatomy of right recurrent nerve node: Why does early metastasis of esophageal cancer occur in it?

Surgical and Radiologic Anatomy

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 333-338

  Mizutani, Masaomi ^a   Murakami, Gen ^b   Nawata, Shin Ichi ^a   Hitrai, Ichiro ^a   Kimura, Wataru ^a  

^a YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL; CANCER STAGING; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHATIC DRAINAGE; MALE; MEDIASTINUM LYMPH NODE; NEUROANATOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE; SURGICAL ANATOMY; VENOUS CIRCULATION;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; AGED; CADAVER; DISSECTION; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; MALE; MEDIASTINUM; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE; TRACHEA;

EID: 33746779984     PISSN: 09301038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00276-006-0115-y     Document Type: Article

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