Status of involved lymph nodes and direction of metastatic lymphatic flow between submucosal and T2-4 thoracic squamous cell esophageal cancers

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 512-517

  Motoyama, Satoru ^a   Maruyama, Kiyotomi ^a   Sato, Yusuke ^a   Usami, Shuetsu ^a   Nakatsu, Toshinobu ^a   Saito, Hajime ^a   Minamiya, Yoshihiro ^a   Ogawa, Jun Ichi ^a  

^a AKITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CERVICAL LYMPH NODE; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH FLOW; LYMPH NODE; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PROGNOSIS; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SURVIVAL RATE; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; LYMPH; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SECONDARY;

CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 60449099931     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: 14322323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-008-9781-8     Document Type: Article

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