Correlation of ABO blood group with clinicopathologic characteristics of patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma

Diseases of the Esophagus

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 146-149

  Nozoe, Tadahiro ^a,b   Ezaki, T ^a   Baba, H ^b   Kakeji, Y ^b   Maehara, Y ^b  

^a FUKUOKA HIGASHI MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

ABO blood group; Esophagus; Squamous cell carcinoma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD GROUP AB; BLOOD GROUP ABO SYSTEM; BLOOD GROUP B; BLOOD GROUP O; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TUMOR DIFFERENTIATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

ABO BLOOD-GROUP SYSTEM; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 4043053687     PISSN: 11208694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-2050.2004.00392.x     Document Type: Article

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