Outcome of patients with esophageal carcinoma and suspicious celiac lymph nodes as determined by endoscopic ultrasonography

Endoscopy

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 961-965

  Marsman, W A ^a   van Wissen, M ^a   Bergman, J J G H M ^a   van Lanschot, J J B ^a   Obertop, H ^a   Tytgat, G N J ^a   Fockens, P ^a  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TUMOR DIFFERENTIATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 8444238163     PISSN: 0013726X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2004-825960     Document Type: Article

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