Impact of sarcopenia on outcomes of locally advanced esophageal cancer patients treated with neoadjuvant chemoradiation followed by surgery

BACKGROUND: Sarcopenia is an independent predictor of clinical outcomes in multiple gastrointestinal cancers. Total psoas area (TPA), as measured on a single cross-sectional CT image at the L4 vertebral body level, has been correlated with sarcopenia. We sought to evaluate whether TPA was predictive...

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I publikationen:J Gastrointest Oncol
Huvudupphovsmän: Murimwa, Gilbert Z., Venkat, Puja S., Jin, William, Leuthold, Susan, Latifi, Kujtim, Almhanna, Khaldoun, Pimiento, Jose M., Fontaine, Jacques-Pierre, Hoffe, Sarah E., Frakes, Jessica M.
Materialtyp: Artigo
Språk:Inglês
Publicerad: AME Publishing Company 2017
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Länkar:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5674260/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29184684
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.21037/jgo.2017.06.11
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