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SUBMITTER: Jeong DY
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6089181 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Jeong Dong Young DY Kim Min Yeong MY Lee Kyung Soo KS Choi Joon Young JY Kim Soo Jeong SJ Chung Myung Jin MJ Min Yang Won YW Kim Hong Kwan HK Zo Jae Ill JI Shim Young Mog YM Sun Jong-Mu JM
Cancer medicine 20180622 8
This study aimed to evaluate the frequency of nodal metastases and to disclose the diagnostic performance of endoscopic ultrasonography (EUS) and PET/CT in T and N staging in surgically resected early-stage esophageal squamous cell carcinomas (eSCCs). Institutional review board approved this retrospective study with waiver of informed consent for reviewing medical record. We included 435 patients with an early T-stage (Tis or T1a [≤T1a], T1b and T2) eSCC. The rates of metastatic lymphadenopathy ...[more]