Postoperative morbidity and mortality following resection of the colon and rectum for cancer

Diseases of the Colon & Rectum

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 1995, Pages 480-487

  Bokey, E L ^a   Chapuis, P H ^a   Fung, C ^a   Hughes, W J ^a   Koorey, S G ^a   Brewer, D ^a   Newland, R C ^a   Chiu, Yanek S Y ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Colorectal cancer; Morbidity; Mortality; Resection

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; COLON CANCER; COLON RESECTION; ELECTIVE SURGERY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; HEMICOLECTOMY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RECTUM ANTERIOR RESECTION; RECTUM CANCER; RECTUM RESECTION; SEPSIS; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; COLECTOMY; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; EMERGENCIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART DISEASES; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEW SOUTH WALES; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 0029154340     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: 15300358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02148847     Document Type: Article

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