Pretreatment staging by endoscopic ultra
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Shawn Mallery; Malcolm DeCamp; Raphael Bueno; Steven J. Mentzer; David J. Sugarb
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Article
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1999
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## BACKGROUND. Endoscopic ultrasonography (EUS) provides highly accurate preoperative T and N classifications in patients with esophageal carcinoma. Although previous data have suggested that patients with tumors classified as T4 by EUS do not benefit from surgical resection, these data were acqui