1. Esophageal submucosa: The watershed for esophageal cancer
Siva Raja, MD, PhD, Thomas W. Rice, MD, John R. Goldblum, MD, Lisa A. Rybicki, MS, Sudish C. Murthy, MD, PhD, David P. Mason, MD, Eugene H. Blackstone, MD 
The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 
Volume 142, Issue 6, Pages e1 (December 2011)
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2. Figure 1
Cross-section of esophageal wall and lymphatics. A, Normal esophagus demonstrating lymphatic anatomy. B, Cancer invasion into inner, middle, and deep submucosa.
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3. Figure 2
Histograms demonstrating relationship of cancer characteristics to depth of submucosal cancer invasion. Adeno, adenocarcinoma; LVI, lymphovascular invasion; SCC, squamous cell carcinoma.
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4. Figure 3
Survival after esophagectomy by pN classification. Vertical bars represent ± 1 standard error, and legend shows number of patients at risk. Tick marks indicate censored patients.
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5. Figure 4
Survival after esophagectomy by age and pN classification. Depiction is as in Figure 3.
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