A case of mediastinoscope-assisted transhiatal esophagectomy for thoracic esophageal cancer after radical operation for lung cancer

Japanese Journal of Cancer and Chemotherapy

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2445-2447

  Tokumitsu, Yukio ^a   Yamamoto, Tatsuhito ^a   Kitamura, Yoshinori ^a   Ando, Seiichiro ^a   Tsushimi, Kureo ^a   Tangoku, Akira ^b  

^a Iseikai Tsushimi Hospital   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Esophageal cancer; Lung cancer; Mediastinoscope assisted transhiatal esophagectomy

Indexed keywords

CANCER PATIENT; CHEMOTHERAPY; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; HUMAN; LOBECTOMY; LUNG; LUNG CANCER; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MALE; MEDIASTINOSCOPE; MEDIASTINUM LYMPH NODE; PATIENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROCEDURES; RADIOTHERAPY; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE PALSY; REMISSION; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SURGERY; SURGICAL APPROACH; THORACOTOMY; TRACHEOSTOMY;

EID: 84864622983     PISSN: 03850684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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