The anatomical substrate for a difference in surgical approach to rectal cancer in male and female patients

Anticancer Research

Volumn 17, Issue 1 B, 1997, Pages 637-641

  Verschueren, R C J ^a,c,d   Mulder, N H ^a   Van Loon, A J ^b   De Ruiter, A J ^b   Szabo, B G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b Department of Medical Oncology ^*  (Netherlands)

^c Integraal Kankercentrum Noord Nederland   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cancer; Exenteration; Gender; Hysterectomy; Radicality; Rectum; Recurrence; Surgery; Vagina

Indexed keywords

CANCER SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH VESSEL; MALE; PELVIC GIRDLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM CANCER; RECTUM RESECTION; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL APPROACH; VISCERA;

FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PELVIS; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 0031050142     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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