Preoperative platelet count in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma: Is it a prognostic factor?

Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery

Volumn 398, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1115-1122

  Feng, Ji Feng ^a   Huang, Ying ^a   Lu, Wei Shan ^a   Chen, Qi Xun ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG CANCER HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

Esophageal cancer; Platelet count; Prognostic factor; Squamous cell carcinoma; Survival

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER GRADING; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL EVALUATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ESOPHAGEAL SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL TIME; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; TUMOR VOLUME; VERY ELDERLY;

CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PLATELET COUNT; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 84890565521     PISSN: 14352443     EISSN: 14352451     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00423-013-1111-4     Document Type: Article

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