Superior vena cava syndrome associated with the metastasis of gastric adenocarcinoma to cervical lymph nodes

Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Volumn 52, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 3343-3345

  Osawa, Satoshi ^a   Sakamoto, Atsushi ^a   Iwasaki, Hirohiko ^a   Mochizuki, Chihiro ^a   Takagaki, Kohsuke ^a   Horio, Yoshiaki ^a   Furuta, Takahisa ^a   Kanaoka, Shigeru ^a   Ikuma, Mutsuhiro ^a   Kajimura, Masayoshi ^a   Hishida, Akira ^a  

^a HAMAMATSU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chemoradiotherapy; Gastric cancer; Metastasis; Superior vena cava syndrome

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; DIURETIC AGENT;

AGED; ANOREXIA; ARM EDEMA; ARTICLE; BRACHIOCEPHALIC VEIN; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER REGRESSION; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL LYMPH NODE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPHAGIA; FACE EDEMA; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HUMAN; INTERNAL JUGULAR VEIN; LIVER METASTASIS; LUNG METASTASIS; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHANGITIS; PLEURA EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; STOMACH ADENOCARCINOMA; SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN SYNDROME; TUMOR THROMBUS; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; BIOPSY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; NECK; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SUPERIOR VENA CAVA SYNDROME; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 35948995314     PISSN: 01632116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10620-007-8101-8     Document Type: Article

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