Prognostic Variables in Thoracic Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 87, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1056-1065

  Lin, Chen Sung ^a,b,c   Chang, Shi Chuan ^a,c   Wei, Yau Huei ^a   Chou, Teh Ying ^a,d   Wu, Yu Chung ^a,c   Lin, Hui Chen ^e   Wang, Liang Shun ^a,f   Hsu, Wen Hu ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b KEELUNG HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c TAIPEI VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^d Laboratory Medicine   (Taiwan)

^e KAINAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^f EN CHU KONG HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CARDIA; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISSECTION; DYSPHAGIA; ESOPHAGEAL SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THORACIC ESOPHAGEAL SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

AGED; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THORACIC CAVITY;

EID: 62649104315     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2008.11.051     Document Type: Article

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