Characteristics of esophagorespiratory fistulas resulting from esophageal cancers: A single-center study on 243 cases in a 20-year period

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 994-1001

  Balazs, Akos ^a   Galambos, Zoltan ^a   Kupcsulik, Peter K ^a  

^a SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER MORPHOLOGY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM FISTULA; DIGESTIVE TRACT INTUBATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPHAGIA; ESOPHAGORESPIRATORY FISTULA; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; QUALITY OF LIFE; SURVIVAL TIME; TUMOR VOLUME; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAUSALITY; COMORBIDITY; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; HUNGARY; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; TRACHEOESOPHAGEAL FISTULA; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 67349208496     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: 14322323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-009-9988-3     Document Type: Article

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