1. Barrett's esophagus: treatments of adenocarcinomas I
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Björn L.D.M. Brücher, Hubert J. Stein, Marcus Feith, Pierre Henri Deprez, Günther Hofmann, Bas P. L. Wijnhoven, Ahmed Ba-Ssalamah, Christoph Schuhmacher, Ajlan Atasoy, Jean-Marie Collard, Peter Pokieser, Roy J. J. Verhage, and Srinadh Komanduri
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medicine.medical_specialty ,business.industry ,General Neuroscience ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Endoscopic mucosal resection ,Esophageal cancer ,Sentinel node ,medicine.disease ,digestive system diseases ,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology ,Surgery ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,History and Philosophy of Science ,Barrett's esophagus ,Resection margin ,medicine ,Adenocarcinoma ,Lymphadenectomy ,Esophagus ,business - Abstract
The following on the treatments of adenocarcinomas in Barrett's esophagus contains commentaries on endo mucosal resection; choice between other ablative therapies; the remaining genetic abnormalities following stepwise endoscopic mucosal resection and possible recurrences; the Fotelo-Fotesi PDT; the CT TNM classification of early stages of Barrett's carcinoma; the indications of lymphadenectomy in intramucosal cancer; the differences in lymph node yield in transthoracic versus transhiatal dissection; video-assisted lymphadenectomy; and the importance of the length of proximal esophageal resectipon; and indications of sentinel node dissection.
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- 2011
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