Detection of distant metastases in patients with oesophageal or gastric cardia cancer: A diagnostic decision analysis

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 97, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 868-876

  Van Vliet, E P M ^a   Steyerberg, E W ^a   Eijkemans, M J C ^a   Kuipers, E J ^a   Siersema, P D ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Metastases; Oesophageal cancer; Staging

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; HEART CANCER; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LUNG METASTASIS; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; STOMACH CANCER; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ADENOCARCINOMA; BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CARDIA; DATABASES; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 34948909134     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: 15321827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6603960     Document Type: Article

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