Correlation between sarcopenia and esophageal cancer: a narrative review
World Journal of Surgical OncologyBackground In recent years, the research on the relationship between sarcopenia before and after the treatment of esophageal cancer, as well as its impact on prognosis of esophageal cancer, has increased rapidly, which has aroused people’s attention to ...
Shenglan Li +5 more
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Esophageal pulmonary fistula – a rare complication of radiation therapy: a case report
Journal of Medical Case Reports, 2018 Background Esophageal respiratory fistulae are abnormal communications between the esophagus and the respiratory system. They are either congenital or acquired.
Laetitia Buemi +4 more
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Prospective, open, multi-centre phase I/II trial to assess safety and efficacy of neoadjuvant radiochemotherapy with docetaxel and oxaliplatin in patients with adenocarcinoma of the oesophagogastric junction [PDF]
, 2013 Background: This phase I/II-trial assessed the dose-limiting toxicities (DLT) and maximum tolerated dose (MTD) of neoadjuvant radiochemotherapy (RCT) with docetaxel and oxaliplatin in patients with locally advanced adenocarcinoma of the oesophagogastric ...
Arnold, Dirk +12 more
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Geometry-Aware Latent Representation Learning for Modeling Disease Progression of Barrett's Esophagus [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 Barrett's Esophagus (BE) is the only precursor known to Esophageal Adenocarcinoma (EAC), a type of esophageal cancer with poor prognosis upon diagnosis. Therefore, diagnosing BE is crucial in preventing and treating esophageal cancer. While supervised machine learning supports BE diagnosis, high interobserver variability in histopathological training ...
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True Carcinosarcoma of the Esophagus: Report of a Case
Case Reports in Gastroenterology, 2008 Carcinosarcoma of the esophagus is a malignant neoplasm involving both carcinomatous and sarcomatous components. We report a patient with true esophageal carcinosarcoma who underwent laparoscopy-assisted surgery.
Yuji Yamamoto +10 more
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Two distinct aetiologies of cardia cancer, evidence from premorbid serological markers of gastric atrophy and Helicobacter pylori status [PDF]
, 2007 Background: Non-cardia gastric adenocarcinoma is positively associated with Helicobacter pylori infection and atrophic gastritis. The role of H pylori infection and atrophic gastritis in cardia cancer is unclear.
Aase, S. +7 more
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Giant Esophageal Lipoma as an Uncommon Cause of Diverticula
Case Reports in Gastroenterology, 2016 Esophageal lipoma is an uncommon benign tumor of the esophagus and accounts for only 0.4% of all benign neoplasms of the gastrointestinal system. The majority of these are located in the cervical part; only very few are located in the lower third of the ...
Erdal Yekeler +3 more
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Non-coding RNAs in saliva: emerging biomarkers for molecular diagnostics. [PDF]
, 2015 Saliva is a complex body fluid that comprises secretions from the major and minor salivary glands, which are extensively supplied by blood. Therefore, molecules such as proteins, DNA, RNA, etc., present in plasma could be also present in saliva.
Majem, Blanca +3 more
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Epidemiological, Sociodemographic And Clinical Profile of Men With Cancer in Rondônia, Brazilian Amazon [PDF]
, 2020 Objective: to analyze the epidemiological, sociodemographic and clinical profile of men in Rondônia, Western Amazonia (Brazil), diagnosed with the main types of cancer, during a period of 2 (two) years.
Almeida, Fabrício Moraes de +6 more
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Esophageal neoplasms - single institution report [PDF]
, 2016 Introduction:Esophageal malignancies are a diverse group of neoplastic processes. The different entries that contribute to the group have a very wide margin of incidence across different populations, attributed to the presence of different predisposing ...
Dzhenkov, Deyan +2 more
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