Locally advanced rectal cancer: Resection and intraoperative radiotherapy using the flab method combined with preoperative or postoperative radiochemotherapy

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 774-779

  Huber, F T ^a   Stepan, R ^a   Zimmermann, F ^a   Fink, U ^a   Molls, M ^a   Siewert, J R ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Intraoperative radiotherapy; Rectal cancer

Indexed keywords

FLUOROURACIL; IRIDIUM 192;

CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PAPER; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MORBIDITY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; RADIATION DOSE; RECTUM ABDOMINOPERINEAL RESECTION; RECTUM ANTERIOR RESECTION; RECTUM CANCER; SURGICAL MORTALITY; URETER OBSTRUCTION;

ANTIMETABOLITES, ANTINEOPLASTIC; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; FLUOROURACIL; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0030055480     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02054443     Document Type: Conference Paper

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