Outcomes After Transhiatal and Transthoracic Esophagectomy for Cancer

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 424-429

  Chang, Andrew C ^a   Ji, Hong ^a   Birkmeyer, Nancy J ^a   Orringer, Mark B ^a   Birkmeyer, John D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER GRADING; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FEMALE; HAZARD RATIO; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; ESOPHAGOGASTRIC JUNCTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROBABILITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; THORACOTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 38349174771     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2007.10.007     Document Type: Article

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