Tumor length as a prognostic factor in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 887-893

  Wang, Bing Yen ^a,c   Goan, Yih Gang ^b   Hsu, Po Kuei ^a   Hsu, Wen Hu ^a   Wu, Yu Chung ^a  

^a NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b KAOHSIUNG VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c CHIA NAN UNIVERSITY OF PHARMACY AND SCIENCE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESOPHAGEAL SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; ESOPHAGUS SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL RATE; TAIWAN; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79951996218     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2010.11.011     Document Type: Article

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