Outcomes from salvage esophagectomy post definitive chemoradiotherapy compared with resection following preoperative neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy

Diseases of the Esophagus

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 471-477

  Smithers, B M ^a   Cullinan, M ^a   Thomas, J M ^a   Martin, I ^a   Barbour, A P ^a   Burmeister, B H ^a,b   Harvey, J A ^b   Thomson, D B ^b   Walpole, E T ^a,b   Gotley, D C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b PRINCESS ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Definitive chemoradiotherapy; Esophageal neoplasm; Neoadjuvan tchemoradiotherapy; Postoperative morbidity; Salvage esophagectomy

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; FLUOROURACIL;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHEST INFECTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECG ABNORMALITY; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; OPERATION DURATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PREOPERATIVE TREATMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SALVAGE THERAPY; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND INFECTION;

ADULT; AGED; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SALVAGE THERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 35448963533     PISSN: 11208694     EISSN: 14422050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-2050.2007.00701.x     Document Type: Article

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