Transanal Excision and Postoperative Radiation Therapy in Selected Patients with Cancer of the Low Rectum

International Surgery

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 40-44

  Romano, G ^a,b   Rotondano, G ^a   Esposito, P ^a   Novi, A ^a   Santangelo, M L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Local excision; Radiotherapy; Rectal cancer; Rectal endosonography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANUS SPHINCTER; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIARRHEA; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; MORBIDITY; MUSCLE FUNCTION; PATIENT SELECTION; RECTUM CANCER; RECTUM RESECTION;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RADIOTHERAPY, HIGH-ENERGY; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0029995514     PISSN: 00208868     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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