Salvage lymphadenectomy for cervical lymph node recurrence after esophagectomy for squamous cell carcinoma of the thoracic esophagus

Diseases of the Esophagus

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 62-66

  Watanabe, M ^a,b   Nishida, K ^b   Kimura, Y ^b   Miyazaki, M ^b   Baba, H ^a  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b ASO IIZUKA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cervical lymph node; Esophageal cancer; Salvage treatment; Secondary dissection

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER RELAPSE; CERVICAL LYMPH NODE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE COURSE; ESOPHAGEAL SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; STERNOTOMY; SUBCUTANEOUS HEMORRHAGE;

AGED; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK DISSECTION; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; SALVAGE THERAPY;

EID: 84855759412     PISSN: 11208694     EISSN: 14422050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-2050.2011.01215.x     Document Type: Article

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