How Many Nodes Need to be Removed to Make Esophagectomy an Adequate Cancer Operation, and Does the Number Change When a Patient has Chemoradiotherapy Before Surgery?-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

How Many Nodes Need to be Removed to Make Esophagectomy an Adequate Cancer Operation, and Does the Number Change When a Patient has Chemoradiotherapy Before Surgery?

Published:2019-10-11 Issue:4 Volume:27 Page:1227-1232
ISSN:1068-9265
Container-title:Annals of Surgical Oncology
language:en
Short-container-title:Ann Surg Oncol

Author:

Yeung Jonathan C.,Bains Manjit S.,Barbetta Arianna,Nobel Tamar,DeMeester Steven R.,Louie Brian E.,Orringer Mark B.,Martin Linda W.,Reddy Rishindra M.,Schlottmann Francisco,Molena Daniela

Funder

This study was supported, in part, by the NIH/NCI Cancer Center Support Grant

Publisher

Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Subject

Oncology,Surgery

Link

http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1245/s10434-019-07870-2.pdf

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