Prospective evaluation of positron emission tomography in the preoperative staging of esophageal carcinoma

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 139, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1043-1049

  Kneist, Werner ^a   Schreckenberger, Mathias ^a   Bartenstein, Peter ^a   Menzel, Christian ^b   Oberholzer, Katja ^a   Junginger, Theodor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER MAINZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FRANKFURT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMEN; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE METASTASIS; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; NECK; PATIENT SELECTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THORAX; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 5444271641     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.139.10.1043     Document Type: Article

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