Gender differences in prognosis after esophagectomy for esophageal cancer

Surgery Today

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 505-512

  Morita, Masaru ^a   Otsu, Hajime ^a   Kawano, Hiroyuki ^a   Kasagi, Yuta ^a   Kimura, Yasue ^a   Saeki, Hiroshi ^a   Ando, Koji ^a   Ida, Satoshi ^a   Oki, Eiji ^a   Tokunaga, Eriko ^a   Ikeda, Tetsuo ^a   Kusumoto, Tetsuya ^a   Maehara, Yoshihiko ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Esophageal cancer; Female; Gender; Prognosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOL ABUSE; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PROGNOSIS; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE SPECIFIC SURVIVAL; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING;

AGED; ALCOHOL DRINKING; COMORBIDITY; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROGNOSIS; SEX FACTORS; SMOKING; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84896715557     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: 14362813     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00595-013-0573-x     Document Type: Article

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