Intraoperative pathological investigation of recurrent nerve nodal metastasis can guide the decision whether to perform cervical lymph node dissection in thoracic esophageal cancer

Oncology Reports

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1061-1066

  Ueda, Yuji ^a   Shiozaki, Atsushi ^a   Itoi, Hirosumi ^b   Okamoto, Kazuma ^a   Fujiwara, Hitoshi ^a   Ichikawa, Daisuke ^a   Kikuchi, Shojiro ^a   Fuji, Nobuaki ^a   Itoh, Tsuyoshi ^a   Ochiai, Toshiya ^a   Komatsu, Shuhei ^a   Yamagishi, Hisakazu ^a  

^a KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b MEIJI UNIVERSITY OF INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Esophageal cancer; Lymph node dissection; Lymph node metastasis; Recurrent nerve chain lymph node; Three field dissection

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ESOPHAGUS TUMOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LYMPH NODE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK DISSECTION; NERVE CELL; PATHOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

AGED; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK DISSECTION; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEURONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 39049178855     PISSN: 1021335X     EISSN: 17912431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/or.16.5.1061     Document Type: Article

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