Gastric cardiac carcinomas involving the esophagus are more adequately staged as gastric cancers by the 7th edition of the American Joint Commission on Cancer Staging System

Modern Pathology

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 138-146

  Huang, Qin ^a,b,c   Shi, Jiong ^a   Feng, Anning ^a   Fan, Xiangshan ^a   Zhang, Lihua ^a   Mashimo, Hiroshi ^c,d   Cohen, Daniel ^c,e   Lauwers, Gregory ^c,f  

^a THE AFFILIATED DRUM TOWER HOSPITAL OF NANJING UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (China)

^b Laboratory Medicine   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d Department of Gastroenterology ^*  (United States)

^e VA BOSTON HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^f MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

cancer; esophagus; gastroesophageal junction; staging; stomach

Indexed keywords

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CELIAC ARTERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FEMALE; HEART CARCINOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STOMACH CARCINOMA; SURVIVAL RATE; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIA; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGOGASTRIC JUNCTION; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HUMANS; MALE; MASSACHUSETTS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 78650865669     PISSN: 08933952     EISSN: 15300285     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/modpathol.2010.183     Document Type: Article

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