Of 393 patients with squamous-cell carcinoma in the thoracic esophagus, 60 were found by histologic examination to have intramural metastasis. Metastases in 50 of these were identified by gross inspection. There appeared to be no preference for location proximal to the primary lesion. Eighteen patie
Preoperative chemotherapy for esophageal carcinoma with intramural metastasis
β Scribed by Nobukazu Hokamura; Hoichi Kato; Yuji Tachimori; Hiroshi Watanabe; Hajime Yamaguchi; Yukihiro Nakanishi
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 100 KB
- Volume
- 75
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0022-4790
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