Impact of hospital volume on long-term survival after esophageal cancer surgery

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 142, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 113-117

  Rouvelas, Ioannis ^a   Lindblad, Mats ^a   Zeng, Wenyi ^a,b   Viklund, Pernilla ^a   Ye, Weimin ^a   Lagergren, Jesper ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FEMALE; HAZARD RATIO; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; SWEDEN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33847114894     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: 15383644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.142.2.113     Document Type: Article

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