Validation study of radio-guided sentinel lymph node navigation in esophageal cancer

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 249, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 757-763

  Takeuchi, Hiroya ^a   Fujii, Hirofumi ^a   Ando, Nobutoshi ^a   Ozawa, Soji ^a   Saikawa, Yoshiro ^a   Suda, Koichi ^a   Oyama, Takashi ^a   Mukai, Makio ^a   Nakahara, Tadaki ^a   Kubo, Atsushi ^a   Kitajima, Masaki ^a,b   Kitagawa, Yuko ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND WELFARE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TECHNETIUM TIN COLLOID TC 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISOTOPE LABELING; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHOSCINTIGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOISOTOPE DISTRIBUTION; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; RADIO WAVES; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY;

EID: 67649512961     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e3181a38e89     Document Type: Article

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