Mediastinal Nodal Involvement After Neoadjuvant Chemoradiation For Siewert II/III Adenocarcinoma.

CONCLUSIONS: Pretreatment proximal tumor extent, rather than Siewert classification, is an independent predictor of mediastinal involvement among AEG II/III patients without clinical evidence of mediastinal metastasis and should be considered during treatment planning. PMID: 31102632 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: The Annals of Thoracic Surgery - May 14, 2019 Category: Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery Authors: Mitchell KG, Ikoma N, Nelson DB, Maru DM, Erasmus JJ, Weston BR, Vaporciyan AA, Antonoff MB, Mehran RJ, Rice DC, Roth JA, Swisher SG, Sepesi B, Walsh GL, Correa AM, Das P, Blum MA, Badgwell BD, Hofstetter WL Tags: Ann Thorac Surg Source Type: research