Follow-up of patients with colorectal cancer: A meta-analysis

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 219, Issue 2, 1994, Pages 174-182

  Bruinvels, David J ^a,b   Stiggelbout, Anne M ^a,b   Kievit, Job ^a,b   Van Houwelingen, Hans C ^a   Habbema, J Dik F ^c   Van De Velde, Cornelis J H ^b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARIUM; CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; BARIUM ENEMA; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; META ANALYSIS; METASTASIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGMOIDOSCOPY;

EID: 0028054974     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000658-199402000-00009     Document Type: Article

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