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Cigarette smoking and adenocarcinomas of the esophagus and esophagogastric junction: a pooled analysis from the International BEACON Consortium [PDF]

, 2010
BackgroundPrevious studies that showed an association between smoking and adenocarcinomas of the esophagus and esophagogastric junction were limited in their ability to assess differences by tumor site, sex, dose–response, and duration of cigarette ...
Abnet, C.C., Bernstein, L., Brown, L.M., Casson, A.G., Chow, W.H., Cook, M.B., Corley, D.A., Freedman, N.D., Gammon, M.D., Giffen, C., Kamangar, F., Linda, Sharpe, Murray, Liam, Nyren, O., Pandeya, N., Risch, H.A., Vaughan, T.L., Ward, M.H., Webb, P.M., Whiteman, D.C., Wu, P.M., Ye, W.   +21 more
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Diagnostic performance in T staging for patients with esophagogastric junction cancer using high-resolution MRI: a comparison with conventional MRI at 3 tesla

Cancer Imaging, 2019
Background To investigate and compare the diagnostic performance in T staging for patients with esophagogastric junction cancer using high-resolution magnetic resonance imaging (HR MRI), as compared with conventional MRI at 3 Tesla.
Yuan Yuan, Luguang Chen, Shengnan Ren, Zhen Wang, Yukun Chen, Aiguo Jin, Shuai Li, Xu Fang, Tiegong Wang, Yun Bian, Qingsong Yang, Chenguang Bai, Qiang Hao, Jianping Lu   +13 more
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Treatment of esophageal achalasia in children: Today and tomorrow [PDF]

, 2015
Esophageal achalasia (EA) is a rare esophageal motility disorder in children. Laparoscopic Heller myotomy (LHM) represents the treatment of choice in young patients. Peroral endoscopic myotomy (POEM) is becoming an alternative to LHM.
Caldaro, T, Contini, Ac, Costamagna, G., Cucchiara, Salvatore, Dall'Oglio, L, De Angelis, P, Familiari, P, Federici di Abriola, G, Gigante, G, Marchese, M, Romeo, Ef, Torroni, F   +11 more
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Lack of EGFR mutations benefiting gefitinib treatment in adenocarcinoma of esophagogastric junction

World Journal of Surgical Oncology, 2012
Background The epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) inhibitor, gefitinib, has been reported to successfully treat advanced non-small cell lung cancer patients with genetic mutations in EGFR.
Wang Wen-Ping, Wang Kang-Ning, Gao Qiang, Chen Long-Qi   +3 more
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Endoscopic resection of giant gastrointestinal stromal tumor at the esophagogastric junction: a case report

BMC Gastroenterology, 2019
Background Gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) at the esophagogastric junction are rare and its treatment is complicated and challenging. Endoscopic resection has advantages with less complications compared to open and laparoscopic surgery.
Feng Xue, Wei Wang, Ning Shi, Xing-Bin Ma, Cheng-Xia Liu   +4 more
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Morphology of the Esophageal Hiatus: Is It Different in 3 Types of Hiatus Hernias? [PDF]

, 2020
Background/aimsThe esophageal hiatus is formed by the right crus of the diaphragm in the majority of subjects. Contraction of the hiatus exerts a sphincter-like action on the lower esophageal sphincter (LES). The aim is to study the hiatal anatomy (using
Ghahremani, Gary, Horgan, Santiago, Kumar, Dushyant, Kunkel, David C, Mittal, Ravinder K, Zifan, Ali   +5 more
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Fate of the esophagogastric anastomosis [PDF]

, 2005
ObjectiveThe study objective was to evaluate histopathology of the esophagogastric anastomosis after esophagectomy, determine time trends of histologic changes, and identify factors influencing those findings.MethodsA total of 231 patients underwent 468 ...
Rice, Thomas W., Goldblum, John R., Rybicki, Lisa A., Rajeswaran, Jeevanantham, Murthy, Sudish C., Mason, David P., Blackstone, Eugene H.   +6 more
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The efficacy of the application of the curative criteria of the 5rd edition Japanese gastric cancer treatment guidelines for early adenocarcinoma of the esophagogastric junction treated by endoscopic submucosal dissection

The Saudi Journal of Gastroenterology, 2021
Background: The curative criteria after endoscopic submucosal dissection for early gastric carcinoma were updated by the Japanese Gastric Cancer Association.
Zhihao Chen, Yong Liu, Lizhou Dou, Yueming Zhang, Shun He, Guiqi Wang   +5 more
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The prognostic impact of EGFR, ErbB2 and MET gene amplification in human gastric carcinomas as measured by quantitative Real-Time PCR [PDF]

, 2015
Purpose: Identification of critical genes which play pivotal roles in controlling tumor growth and survival will establish the basis for developing therapeutic targets. In this study, we focused on frequencies of EGFR, ErbB2 and MET gene amplification in
Farazmandfar, T., Janbabai, G., Naghshvar, F., Oladi, Z., Taghvaei, T.   +4 more
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Defining a positive circumferential resection margin in oesophageal cancer and its implications for adjuvant treatment [PDF]

, 2013
A positive circumferential resection margin (CRM) has been associated with a poorer prognosis in oesophageal and oesophagogastric junctional (OGJ) cancer. The College of American Pathologists defines the CRM as positive if tumour cells are present at the
Adam, Adamina, Agresti, American Joint Committee on Cancer, Austin, Courrech Staal, Cox, Deeter, Dexter, Gertler, Griffiths, Harvin, International Union Against Cancer, Jemal, Kaplan, Khan, Law, Mapstone, Medical Research Council Oesophageal Cancer Working Group, Pultrum, Quirke, Reid, Rice, Rosenbaum, Royston, Rubin, Sagar, Saha, Salih, Scheepers, Sujendran, van Hagen, Verhage, Wibe   +33 more
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