Stents for proximal esophageal cancer: A case-control study

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 73, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1098-1105

  Parker, Robert K ^a,b   White, Russell E ^a,b   Topazian, Mark ^c   Chepkwony, Robert ^a   Dawsey, Sonja ^a   Enders, Felicity ^c  

^a Tenwek Hospital   (Kenya)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTAL ESOPHAGEAL CANCER; DYSPHAGIA; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; ESOPHAGUS PERFORATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROXIMAL ESOPHAGEAL CANCER; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF EXPANDABLE METAL STENT; STENT; SURVIVAL RATE; THORAX PAIN; TRACHEOESOPHAGEAL FISTULA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR GROWTH; UPPER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGEAL PERFORATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PALLIATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STENTS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 79957797172     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: 10976779     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2010.11.036     Document Type: Article

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