New insights in the lymphatic spread of oesophageal cancer and its implications for the extent of surgical resection

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Gastroenterology

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 893-906

  Cense, H A ^a   van Eijck, C H J ^a   Tilanus, H W ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

endoscopic mucosal resection; lymph nodes metastases; oesophageal cancer; sentinel node; surgical approach

Indexed keywords

ANTIMONY TECHNETIUM SULFIDE TC 99M; IOPAMIDOL;

ARTICLE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DOG; ENDOSCOPIC MUCOSAL RESECTION; ESOPHAGEAL ADENOCARCINOMA; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; JAPAN; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENECTOMY; LYMPHOGRAPHY; LYMPHOSCINTIGRAPHY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METASTASIS POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; REOPERATION; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE; SWINE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

ADENOCARCINOMA; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; ESOPHAGOGASTRIC JUNCTION; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; THORACIC NEOPLASMS; THORACOTOMY;

EID: 33748687177     PISSN: 15216918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpg.2006.03.010     Document Type: Article

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