A comparison of surgery and radiation therapy for cT1 esophageal squamous cell carcinoma

Diseases of the Esophagus

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 411-417

  Matsumoto, S ^a   Takayama, T ^a   Tamamoto, T ^a   Wakatsuki, K ^a   Enomoto, K ^a   Tanaka, T ^a   Migita, K ^a   Asakawa, I ^a   Hasegawa, M ^a   Nakajima, Y ^a  

^a NARA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Esophageal cancer; Radiation therapy; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ANASTOMOSIS STENOSIS; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RELAPSE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; ESOPHAGEAL SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; ESOPHAGITIS; ESOPHAGUS MUSCLE; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEUKOPENIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE PARALYSIS; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PERICARDITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE PALSY; STANDARD; SUBMUCOSA; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; BRACHYTHERAPY; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; DOSE FRACTIONATION; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS;

EID: 80051688159     PISSN: 11208694     EISSN: 14422050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-2050.2010.01163.x     Document Type: Article

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