Extracapsular lymph node involvement in patients with esophageal cancer treated with neoadjuvant chemoradiation therapy followed by surgery: the closer you look, the less you see

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Yin-Kai Chao. J Thorac Dis. 2017 Nov.

. 2017 Nov;9(11):4270-4272.

doi: 10.21037/jtd.2017.10.53.

¹ Division of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at Linkou, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan.

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Conflicts of Interest: The author has no conflicts of interest to declare.

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