Endoscopic mucosal resection for early squamous-cell cancer of the esophagus - A dangerous game or standard treatment?

Endoscopy

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 77-79

  Hölcher, Arnulf H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

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Indexed keywords

ARGON PLASMA COAGULATION; CANCER INVASION; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; DYSPLASIA; EARLY CANCER; EDITORIAL; ENDOSCOPIC MUCOSAL RESECTION; ESOPHAGEAL SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; ESOPHAGUS BIOPSY; ESOPHAGUS STENOSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; PATIENT SAFETY; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENCE RISK; REOPERATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT INDICATION; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR VOLUME; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; ESOPHAGUS TUMOR; MORTALITY; MUCOSA; PATHOLOGY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SURVIVAL; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGEAL STENOSIS; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; HUMANS; MUCOUS MEMBRANE; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 33847737057     PISSN: 0013726X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2006-945184     Document Type: Editorial

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