Pragmatic staging of oesophageal cancer using decision theory involving selective endoscopic ultrasonography, PET and laparoscopy

British Journal of Surgery

Volumn 102, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 1488-1499

  Findlay, J M ^a,b   Bradley, K M ^a   Maile, E J ^a   Braden, B ^c   Maw, J ^a   Phillips Hughes, J ^a   Gillies, R S ^a   Maynard, N D ^a   Middleton, M R ^b,d  

^a CHURCHILL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b The National Institute for Health Research Health Protection Research Unit in Blood Borne and Sexually Transmitted Infections at University College London in partnership with UK Health Security Agency   (United Kingdom)

^c JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; CANCER STAGING; DECISION THEORY; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPY; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROCEDURES; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCINTISCANNING; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DECISION THEORY; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGOGASTRIC JUNCTION; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NEOPLASM STAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84944155264     PISSN: 00071323     EISSN: 13652168     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bjs.9905     Document Type: Article

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