Clinical Significance of the Pre-therapeutic Nodal Size in Patients Undergoing Neo-Adjuvant Treatment Followed by Esophagectomy for Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma

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• 作者：Shinji Mine ; Masayuki Watanabe ; Yu Imamura ; Akihiko Okamura…
• 刊名：World Journal of Surgery
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：41
• 期：1
• 页码：184-190
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• 刊物类别：Medicine
• 刊物主题：Surgery; Abdominal Surgery; Cardiac Surgery; General Surgery; Thoracic Surgery; Vascular Surgery;
• 出版者：Springer International Publishing
• ISSN：1432-2323
• 卷排序：41

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BackgroundThe clinical significance of pre-therapeutic nodal size in patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) is not clear. We investigated whether nodal size was correlated with survival in patients undergoing neo-adjuvant treatment followed by esophagectomy for ESCC.