Video-assisted mediastinoscopy improved radical resection for cancer in transhiatal esophagectomy

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 133, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 267-268

  Pop, Daniel ^a   Venissac, Nicolas ^a   Mouroux, Jerome ^a  

^a PASTEUR HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CANCER THERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HUMAN; MALE; MEDIASTINOSCOPE; MEDIASTINOSCOPY; PATIENT CARE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSHIATAL ESOPHAGECTOMY; TREATMENT DURATION; VIDEORECORDING;

AGED; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; MALE; MEDIASTINOSCOPY; MEDIASTINUM; MIDDLE AGED; VIDEO-ASSISTED SURGERY;

EID: 33845733227     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2006.08.066     Document Type: Article

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