Abstract:Objectives
The goal of the study was to examine the relationships among micrometastasis, pathological degree of differentiation and survival in patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (SCC).
Design
A single-center retrospective study of patients diagnosed with thoracic esophageal SCC.
Methods
Immunostaining using CK13 was carried out for all lymph nodes resected by radical esophagectomy with three-field lymphadenectomy. The relations… Show more
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