Esophageal cancer: Staging system and guidelines for staging and treatment

Journal of Thoracic Disease

Volumn 6, Issue SUPPL.3, 2014, Pages

  Berry, Mark F ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Esophageal neoplasms; Esophagectomy; Neoplasm staging

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED CANCER; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST RADIOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC MUCOSAL RESECTION; ESOPHAGEAL ADENOCARCINOMA; ESOPHAGEAL SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT EXAMINATION; HUMAN; INOPERABLE CANCER; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; REVIEW; SUPERFICIAL CANCER; TUMOR ABLATION; TUMOR INVASION; UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT;

EID: 84904755095     PISSN: 20721439     EISSN: 20776624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3978/j.issn.2072-1439.2014.03.11     Document Type: Review

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