The range of tumor extension should have precedence over the location of the deepest tumor center in determining the regional lymph node grouping for widely extending esophageal carcinomas

Japanese Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 775-782

  Ueda, Yuji ^a   Shiozaki, Atsushi ^a   Itoi, Hirosumi ^b   Okamoto, Kazuma ^a   Fujiwara, Hitoshi ^a   Ichikawa, Daisuke ^a   Kikuchi, Shojiro ^a   Fuji, Nobuaki ^a   Itoh, Tsuyoshi ^a   Ochiai, Toshiya ^a   Yamagishi, Hisakazu ^a  

^a KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b MEIJI UNIVERSITY OF INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cardia cancer; Esophageal cancer; Lymph node metastasis; Tumor center; Tumor extension

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER CENTER; CANCER INVASION; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CERVICAL LYMPH NODE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MARKER; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; MEDIASTINUM LYMPH NODE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREDICTION; RELIABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; VALIDITY; ADENOCARCINOMA; CANCER STAGING; CARDIA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ESOPHAGUS TUMOR; LYMPH NODE; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; STOMACH TUMOR; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADENOCARCINOMA; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CARDIA; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; ESOPHAGOGASTRIC JUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 33947528561     PISSN: 03682811     EISSN: 14653621     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jjco/hyl105     Document Type: Article

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