Significance of the prognostic nutritional index in patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma

Therapeutics and Clinical Risk Management

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-7

  Feng, Ji Feng ^a   Chen, Qi Xun ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG CANCER HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

Esophageal squamous cell carcinoma; Prognostic factor; Prognostic nutritional index; Survival

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN;

ADULT; AGED; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; CANCER GRADING; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; ESOPHAGEAL SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; LONG TERM SURVIVAL; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTION; PROGNOSTIC NUTRITIONAL INDEX; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE; TUMOR VOLUME; VERY ELDERLY;

EID: 84891071671     PISSN: 11766336     EISSN: 1178203X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/TCRM.S56159     Document Type: Article

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