Lymph node volume predicts survival in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma treated with neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy and surgery

• Tzu-Hui Pao,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Division of Radiation Oncology, Department of Oncology, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

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• Ying-Yuan Chen,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

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• Wei-Lun Chang,

  Roles Data curation, Resources, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

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• Shang-Yin Wu,

  Roles Data curation, Resources

  Affiliation Department of Oncology, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

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• Wu-Wei Lai,

  Roles Data curation, Resources

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

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• Yau-Lin Tseng,

  Roles Data curation, Resources

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

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• Ta-Jung Chung,

  Roles Data curation, Resources

  Affiliation Department of Medical Imaging, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

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• Forn-Chia Lin

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: fornchia@mail.ncku.edu.tw

  Affiliation Division of Radiation Oncology, Department of Oncology, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3667-4416

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