How to Keep the Treatment of Esophageal Disease in the Surgeon's Hands

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Luketich, James D ^a   Pennathur, Arjun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DYSPLASIA; ENDOSCOPIC MUCOSAL RESECTION; ESOPHAGOGASTRODUODENOSCOPY; ESOPHAGUS ACHALASIA; ESOPHAGUS DISEASE; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; ESOPHAGUS SURGERY; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; STOMACH CANCER; SURGEON; TREATMENT FAILURE; YAG LASER;

BARRETT ESOPHAGUS; ESOPHAGEAL DISEASES; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HUMANS; MALE; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PHYSICIAN'S ROLE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 38449089783     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2007.12.002     Document Type: Article

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