Staging investigations for oesophageal cancer: A meta-analysis

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 547-557

  Van Vliet, E P M ^a   Heijenbrok Kal, M H ^a   Hunink, M G M ^a   Kuipers, E J ^a   Siersema, P D ^a,b  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Meta analysis; Oesophageal cancer; Staging

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; META ANALYSIS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

ENDOSONOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 38949176017     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: 15321827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6604200     Document Type: Article

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