Anastomotic integrity after operations for large-bowel cancer: A multicentre study

British Medical Journal

Volumn 281, Issue 6237, 1980, Pages 411-414

  Fielding, L P ^a   Stewart Brown, Sarah ^a   Blesovsky, Lynda ^a   Kearney, Gillian ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLON ANASTOMOSIS; COLON CARCINOMA; HISTOLOGY; LARGE INTESTINE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; THERAPY;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; SURGICAL WOUND DEHISCENCE;

EID: 0018825218     PISSN: 00071447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.281.6237.411     Document Type: Article

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