Superficial esophageal cancer: Endoscopic resection or radical surgery?

Expert Review of Anticancer Therapy

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1345-1347

  Gockel, Ines ^a   Sgourakis, George ^a,b   Lang, Hauke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER MAINZ   (Germany)

^b RED CROSS HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

endoscopic resection; endoscopic submucosal dissection; radical oncologic surgery; superficial esophageal cancer

Indexed keywords

BARRETT ESOPHAGUS; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; EDITORIAL; ENDOSCOPIC SUBMUCOSAL DISSECTION; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; ENDOSCOPIC THERAPY; ESOPHAGEAL ADENOCARCINOMA; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENECTOMY; QUALITY OF LIFE; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SUPERFICIAL CANCER;

CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ENDOSCOPY; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; NEOPLASM STAGING; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 77956685921     PISSN: 14737140     EISSN: 17448328     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/era.10.124     Document Type: Editorial

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