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Validity of upfront surgery for patients with unsuspected lymph node metastasis in esophageal cancer: a propensity scoring matching study

BACKGROUND: Although neoadjuvant therapy followed by esophagectomy is well-established as being superior to upfront esophagectomy when locoregional lymph node (LN) metastasis is present in esophageal cancer, upfront esophagectomy without neoadjuvant therapy may be performed in patients with LN metas...

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Autores principales: Park, Jae Kil, Kim, Jae Jun, Moon, Seok Whan, Cho, Deog Gon
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5992872/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29880029
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13019-018-0757-y