Positron Emission Tomography-Computed Tomography in Predicting Locoregional Invasion in Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 87, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1564-1568

  Hsu, Wen Hu ^a,b   Hsu, Po Kuei ^a,c   Wang, Shyh Jen ^a   Lin, Ko Han ^a   Huang, Chien Sheng ^a   Hsieh, Chih Cheng ^a   Wu, Yu Chung ^a  

^a TAIPEI VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b TAIPEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RADIOISOTOPES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VIDEO-ASSISTED SURGERY;

EID: 64649107040     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2009.02.065     Document Type: Article

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