Excision of trocar sites reduces tumor implantation in an animal model

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum

Volumn 41, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1107-1111

  Wu, Justin S ^a   Guo, Li Wu ^a   Ruiz, Martha B ^a   Pfister, Suzanne M ^a   Connett, Judith M ^a   Fleshman, James W ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Colon cancer; Laparoscopy; Metastasis; Pneumoperitoneum; Trocar implantation; Tumor implants

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER TRANSPLANTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; LAPAROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PNEUMOPERITONEUM; SKIN INCISION; SURGICAL INSTRUMENT; SYRIAN HAMSTER;

ABDOMINAL MUSCLES; ANIMALS; COLECTOMY; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; CRICETINAE; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPES; MALE; MESOCRICETUS; NEOPLASM SEEDING; NEOPLASM TRANSPLANTATION; PNEUMOPERITONEUM, ARTIFICIAL; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0031666643     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02239431     Document Type: Article

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