Mediastinal carcinosis involving the esophagus in breast cancer: The "breast-esophagus" syndrome: Report on 25 cases and guidelines for diagnosis and treatment

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 246, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 316-322

  Rampado, Sabrina ^a   Ruol, Alberto ^a   Guido, Maria ^a   Zaninotto, Giovanni ^a   Battaglia, Giorgio ^a   Costantini, Mario ^a   Portale, Giuseppe ^a   Amico, Alessandra ^a   Ancona, Ermanno ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADUA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST ESOPHAGUS SYNDROME; BREAST SURGERY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CARCINOMATOSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COBALT TELETHERAPY; CYTOLOGY; CYTOREDUCTIVE SURGERY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DYSPHAGIA; ENDOSCOPIC BIOPSY; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LAPAROSCOPY; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; THORACOSCOPY; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TREATMENT PLANNING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MEDIASTINAL NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; SYNDROME; THORACOSCOPY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34547557406     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.sla.0000263507.11053.26     Document Type: Article

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