Lymph node metastasis from cancer of the esophagogastric junction, and determination of the appropriate nodal dissection

Surgery Today

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 351-358

  Kakeji, Yoshihiro ^a   Yamamoto, Manabu ^a   Ito, Shuhei ^b   Sugiyama, Masahiko ^b   Egashira, Akinori ^a   Saeki, Hiroshi ^b   Morita, Masaru ^a   Sakaguchi, Yoshihisa ^b   Toh, Yasushi ^b   Maehara, Yoshihiko ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL KYUSHU CANCER CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adenocarcinoma; Esophagogastric junction; Lymph node metastasis; Squamous cell carcinoma

Indexed keywords

ADENOCARCINOMA; ARTICLE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER INVASION; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; ESOPHAGOGASTRIC JUNCTION CANCER; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; GASTRECTOMY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SURGICAL APPROACH; THORACOTOMY;

ADENOCARCINOMA; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; ESOPHAGOGASTRIC JUNCTION; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL;

EID: 84863523686     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: 14362813     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00595-011-0114-4     Document Type: Article

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