The impact of volume on outcomes after oesophageal cancer surgery

ANZ Journal of Surgery

Volumn 80, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 634-641

  Rouvelas, Ioannis ^a   Lagergren, Jesper ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

cancer; oesophagus; surgery; survival; volume

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CANCER STAGING; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; ESOPHAGUS TUMOR; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL RATE;

AUSTRALIA; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; HUMANS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; SURGICENTERS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 77956621400     PISSN: 14451433     EISSN: 14452197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-2197.2010.05406.x     Document Type: Article

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