How effective is endoscopic therapy in the treatment of patients with early esophageal cancer?

Nature Clinical Practice Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 70-71

  Singh, Shailender ^a   Sharma, Prateek ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OMEPRAZOLE;

BARRETT ESOPHAGUS; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER REGRESSION; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL TRIAL; EARLY CANCER; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; ENDOSCOPIC THERAPY; ESOPHAGEAL ADENOCARCINOMA; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; ESOPHAGUS HEMORRHAGE; ESOPHAGUS PERFORATION; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; ESOPHAGUS STRICTURE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL DYSPLASIA; HUMAN; INTESTINE METAPLASIA; MONOTHERAPY; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; BARRETT ESOPHAGUS; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASM STAGING; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 59949083590     PISSN: 17434378     EISSN: 17434386     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncpgasthep1330     Document Type: Note

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