Improved outcome after emergency surgery for cancer of the large intestine

British Journal of Surgery

Volumn 85, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1260-1265

  Runkel, N S ^a,b   Hinz, U ^a   Lehnert, T ^a   Buhr, H J ^a   Herfarth, Ch ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLON OBSTRUCTION; COLON PERFORATION; COLORECTAL CANCER; EMERGENCY SURGERY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; EMERGENCIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; INTESTINAL PERFORATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031664048     PISSN: 00071323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2168.1998.00855.x     Document Type: Article

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