Risk of lymph node metastasis in submucosal esophageal cancer: A review of surgically resected patients

Expert Review of Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 371-384

  Gockel, Ines ^a   Sgourakis, George ^a,b   Lyros, Orestis ^a   Polotzek, Ursula ^a   Schimanski, Carl Christoph ^a   Lang, Hauke ^a   Hoppo, Toshitaka ^c   Jobe, Blair A ^c  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b RED CROSS HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

risk of lymph node metastasis; sm1; sm2; sm3; submucosal depth of tumor infiltration; submucosal esophageal cancer; surgically resected specimens

Indexed keywords

CYCLIN D1; KI 67 ANTIGEN; UVOMORULIN; VASCULOTROPIN A; VASCULOTROPIN C;

BARRETT ESOPHAGUS; CANCER INVASION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOSCOPIC SUBMUCOSAL DISSECTION; ESOPHAGEAL ADENOCARCINOMA; ESOPHAGEAL SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SUBMUCOSA; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADENOCARCINOMA; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; ESOPHAGUS; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MUCOUS MEMBRANE; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PATIENT SELECTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 79955118428     PISSN: 17474124     EISSN: 17474132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/egh.11.33     Document Type: Review

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