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Significance of Systematic Lymphadenectomy in Patients with Esophageal Cancer

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Recent Advances in Diseases of the Esophagus

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“Surgical therapy still yields the best results in esophageal cancer!” Although the status of radio- and chemotherapy is still controversial, this quotation by Nakayama in 1979 [1] is still valid today.

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  1. Second Department of Surgery, Kyorin University School of Medicine, 6-20-2, Shinkawa, Mitaka, Tokyo, 181, Japan

    Kin-ichi Nabeya M.D. , Tateo Hanaoka M.D.  & Hiroshi Nogami M.D. ,  & 

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Röher, H.D., Verreet, P.R., Becker, H., Horstmann, O., Ohmann, C. (1993). Significance of Systematic Lymphadenectomy in Patients with Esophageal Cancer. In: Nabeya, Ki., Hanaoka, T., Nogami, H. (eds) Recent Advances in Diseases of the Esophagus. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-68246-2_112

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