The society of thoracic surgeons guidelines on the diagnosis and staging of patients with esophageal cancer

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 96, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 346-356

  Varghese, Thomas K ^a   Hofstetter, Wayne L ^b   Rizk, Nabil P ^c   Low, Donald E ^d   Darling, Gail E ^e   Watson, Thomas J ^f   Mitchell, John D ^g   Krasna, Mark J ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^c MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^d VIRGINIA MASON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^h Meridian Cancer Care   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADVANCED CANCER; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER STAGING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DYSPHAGIA; EARLY CANCER; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC MUCOSAL RESECTION; ESOPHAGEAL ADENOCARCINOMA; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FIBEROSCOPE; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HUMAN; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER; LYMPH NODE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; METASTASIS; ODYNOPHAGIA; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THORAX SURGERY; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR BIOPSY; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

EID: 84879619864     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: 15526259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2013.02.069     Document Type: Article

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