Sentinel lymph node biopsy in esophageal cancer: Has its time come?

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 252, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 413-414

  Zhang, Jie ^a,b,c   Chen, Haiquan ^a,b   Luketich, James D ^c  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY SHANGHAI CANCER CENTER   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; HUMAN; LETTER; LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MELANOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY;

EID: 77955177206     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e3181e9f098     Document Type: Letter

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