Esophageal carcinoma with celiac nodal metastases; Curative or palliative?

Journal of Thoracic Oncology

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 751-755

  Trovo, Marco ^a,b   Bradley, Jeffrey ^b   El Naqa, Issam ^b   Foster, Ethan ^b   Meyers, Bryan ^c   Govindan, Ramaswamy ^d   Patterson, Alexander ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d Division of Oncology   (United States)

Author keywords

Celiac node; Esophagus cancer; Radiation therapy

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE; PLATINUM DERIVATIVE; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CELIAC NODAL METASTASIS; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; DISEASE SEVERITY; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROGRESSION FREE SURVIVAL; RADIATION DOSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; ABDOMEN; ESOPHAGUS TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PATHOLOGY; SURVIVAL RATE;

ABDOMEN; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PALLIATIVE CARE; PROGNOSIS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 50349086163     PISSN: 15560864     EISSN: 15561380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JTO.0b013e31817c7411     Document Type: Article

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