Treatments for esophageal cancer: A review

General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 330-335

  Kato, Hiroyuki ^a   Nakajima, Masanobu ^a  

^a DOKKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chemoradiotherapy; Chemotherapy; Endoscopic treatment; Esophageal cancer; Esophagectomy

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; FLUOROURACIL;

ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ADVANCED CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; DISTANT METASTASIS; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC MUCOSAL RESECTION; ENDOSCOPIC SUBMUCOSAL DISSECTION; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; HUMAN; INCISION; LAPAROTOMY; LARYNGECTOMY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MICROMETASTASIS; PLASTIC SURGERY; REVIEW; SALVAGE THERAPY; SURGICAL APPROACH; THORACOTOMY; TRANSHIATAL APPROACH;

CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; HUMANS; MALE; MUCOUS MEMBRANE; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY;

EID: 84878835883     PISSN: 18636705     EISSN: 18636713     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11748-013-0246-0     Document Type: Review

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