Quality of Life After an Esophagectomy

Surgical Clinics of North America

Volumn 92, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1315-1335

  Sanghera, Sartaj S ^a   Nurkin, Steven J ^a   Demmy, Todd L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Esophageal cancer; Esophagectomy; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ANOREXIA; BARRETT ESOPHAGUS; CANCER INVASION; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER THERAPY; COLON INTERPOSITION; COUGHING; DIARRHEA; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; DYSPHAGIA; DYSPNEA; EARLY CANCER; EMOTION; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; ENDOSCOPIC THERAPY; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; ESOPHAGUS RECONSTRUCTION; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FATIGUE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; MENTAL HEALTH; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PAIN; PATIENT SELECTION; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUALITY OF LIFE INDEX; REVIEW; SHORT FORM 36; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL STATUS; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TUMOR RECURRENCE; VOMITING;

ADENOCARCINOMA; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; ESOPHAGOPLASTY; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; HUMANS; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84866847179     PISSN: 00396109     EISSN: 15583171     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.suc.2012.07.001     Document Type: Review

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