Postoperative mortality in rectal cancer treated with or without preoperative radiotherapy: Causes and risk factors

British Journal of Surgery

Volumn 83, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 964-968

  Holm, T ^a   Rutqvist, L E ^a   Johansson, H ^a   Cedermark, B ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREOPERATIVE RADIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECTUM CANCER; RISK FACTOR; SURGICAL MORTALITY;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFECTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0029899595     PISSN: 00071323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bjs.1800830725     Document Type: Article

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