Surgical treatment of superficial esophageal cancer

Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery

Volumn 391, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 304-321

  Tachibana, Mitsuo ^a   Kinugasa, Shoichi ^a   Shibakita, Muneaki ^a   Tonomoto, Yasuhito ^a   Hattori, Shinji ^a   Hyakudomi, Ryoji ^a   Yoshimura, Hiroshi ^a   Dhar, Dipok Kumar ^a   Nagasue, Naofumi ^a  

^a SHIMANE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Early esophageal cancer; Esophagectomy prognosis; Lymph node metastasis; Superficial esophageal cancer

Indexed keywords

CANCER SURVIVAL; DATA ANALYSIS; EARLY CANCER; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; ESOPHAGEAL ADENOCARCINOMA; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDLINE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; STANDARDIZATION; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; THORACOSCOPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADENOCARCINOMA; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 33748031110     PISSN: 14352443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00423-006-0063-3     Document Type: Review

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