Two different surgical approaches in the treatment of adenocarcinoma at the gastroesophageal junction

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1013-1020

  Johansson, Jan ^a   Djerf, Pauline ^a   Öberg, Stefan ^a   Zilling, Thomas ^a   Von Holstein, Christer Staël ^a   Johnsson, Folke ^a   Walther, Bruno ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HUMAN; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ROUX Y ANASTOMOSIS; STOMACH TUBE;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; ESOPHAGOGASTRIC JUNCTION; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 43949117753     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: 14322323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-008-9470-7     Document Type: Article

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