Endoscopic Ultrasound Compared With Laparoscopy for Staging Esophageal Cancer

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 83, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 2000-2002

  Kaushik, Neeraj ^a   Khalid, Asif ^a   Brody, Debra ^a   Luketich, James ^a   McGrath, Kevin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ULTRASONOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPY; ESOPHAGEAL ADENOCARCINOMA; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 34249017631     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2007.02.023     Document Type: Article

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