Lymph node micrometastasis: A predictor of early tumor relapse after complete resection of histologically node-negative esophageal cancer

Surgery Today

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1047-1052

  Li, Shu Hai ^a   Wang, Zhou ^a   Liu, Xiang Yan ^a   Liu, Fan Ying ^a   Sun, Zhao Yi ^a   Xue, Han ^a  

^a SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Esophageal cancer; Lymph node micrometastasis; MUC1 mRNA; Relapse; RT PCR

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; MUCIN 1;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; ESOPHAGEAL SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LOG RANK TEST; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

AGED; CA-15-3 ANTIGEN; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CHINA; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, NEOPLASM; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 36448966809     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: 14362813     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00595-007-3548-y     Document Type: Article

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