Esophageal carcinosarcoma presenting as a fever with elevated serum interleukin-6

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 91, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1288-1290

  Hayama, Satoshi ^a   Okushiba, Shunichi ^a   Shichinohe, Toshiaki ^a   Hirano, Satoshi ^a   Tanaka, Eiichi ^a   Kondo, Satoshi ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 6;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; CARCINOSARCOMA; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE COURSE; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FEVER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

CARCINOSARCOMA; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FEVER; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-6; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 79953094796     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2010.09.064     Document Type: Article

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