Factors associated with carcinoma of the oesophagus at Mulago hospital, Uganda

African Health Sciences

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 80-84

  Ocama, Ponsiano ^a   Kagimu, Magid M ^a   Odida, Michael ^a   Wabinga, Henry ^a   Opio, Christopher K ^a   Colebunders, Britt ^b   Van Ierssel, Sabrina ^b   Colebunders, Robert ^b  

^a MAKERERE UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ESOPHAGEAL ADENOCARCINOMA; ESOPHAGOGASTRODUODENOSCOPY; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; ESOPHAGUS BIOPSY; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; UGANDA; AGED; ESOPHAGUS TUMOR; HOSPITAL; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATHOLOGY; PREVALENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; FEMALE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UGANDA;

EID: 65349129360     PISSN: 16806905     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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