Blood Transfusions and Prognosis in Colorectal Cancer

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 328, Issue 19, 1993, Pages 1372-1376

  Busch, Olivier ^a   Angulo, Moris ^a   Hop, Wim ^b   Van Papendrecht, Marlene Hoynck ^c   Marquet, Richard L ^a   Jeekel, Johannes ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD AUTOTRANSFUSION; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; COLORECTAL CANCER; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENCE RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BLOOD TRANSFUSION, AUTOLOGOUS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; MORBIDITY; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 0027163855     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199305133281902     Document Type: Article

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