Impact of the number and extent of positive lymph nodes in 200 patients with thoracic esophageal squamous cell carcinoma after three-field lymph node dissection

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1441-1449

  Shimada, Hideaki ^a   Okazumi, Shin Ichi ^a   Matsubara, Hisahiro ^a   Nabeya, Yoshihiro ^a   Shiratori, Tooru ^a   Shimizu, Takanori ^a   Shuto, Kiyohiko ^a   Hayashi, Hideki ^a   Ochiai, Takenori ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CERVICAL LYMPH NODE; CONFERENCE PAPER; ESOPHAGEAL SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SURVIVAL TIME; THORACIC ESOPHAGEAL SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

ABDOMEN; ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; THORAX;

EID: 33748870417     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: 14322323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-005-0462-6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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