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Ann Thorac Surg 2004;78:1950
© 2004 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

INVITED COMMENTARY

Masaki Tomita, MD

Department of Surgery II, Miyazaki Medical College, Kihara 5200, Kiyotake, Miyazaki 889-1692, Japan

mtomita@post.miyazaki-med.ac.jp

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Several studies have demonstrated that bone marrow micrometastases (BMMs) in patients with malignancies is an independent prognostic factor for systemic recurrence and poorer survival. These results of studies of BMMs detection support the concept that systemic spread may happen at an early stage in esophageal cancer. Such systemic spread is often occult at the time of primary diagnosis, . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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Ann. Thorac. Surg. 2004 78: 1944-1949. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]





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