Postoperative complications after transthoracic esophagectomy for cancer of the esophagus and gastroesophageal junction are correlated with early cancer recurrence: Role of systematic grading of complications using the modified clavien classification

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 250, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 798-806

  Lerut, Toni ^a   Moons, Johnny ^a   Coosemans, Willy ^a   Van Raemdonck, Dirk ^a   De Leyn, Paul ^a   Decaluwé, Herbert ^a   Decker, Georges ^a   Nafteux, Philippe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; ESOPHAGEAL ADENOCARCINOMA; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MODIFIED CLAVIEN CLASSIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSTHORACIC ESOPHAGECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; ESOPHAGOGASTRIC JUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RISK FACTORS; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 70449413484     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e3181bdd5a8     Document Type: Article

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