Surgical Complications Do Not Affect Longterm Survival after Esophagectomy for Carcinoma of the Thoracic Esophagus and Cardia

Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Volumn 203, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 661-669

  Ancona, Ermanno ^a   Cagol, Matteo ^a   Epifani, Magdalena ^a   Cavallin, Francesco ^a   Zaninotto, Giovanni ^a   Castoro, Carlo ^a   Alfieri, Rita ^a   Ruol, Alberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CARDIA; CARDIA CARCINOMA; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

ADENOCARCINOMA; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CARDIA; COMORBIDITY; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; FEMALE; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; NEOPLASM STAGING; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 33750462796     PISSN: 10727515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2006.07.017     Document Type: Article

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