Salvage surgery for esophageal carcinoma after definitive chemoradiation therapy

Annals of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 293-295

  Matsubara, Hisahiro ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

EDITORIAL; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; ESOPHAGUS TUMOR; HUMAN; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; SALVAGE THERAPY; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT FAILURE; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; HUMANS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; SALVAGE THERAPY; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 38449085983     PISSN: 13411098     EISSN: 21861005     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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