Use of rectal cancer position as a prognostic indicator

American Surgeon

Volumn 64, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 958-961

  Emslie, Jossalyn ^a,e   Beart, Robert ^b   Mohiuddin, Mohammed ^c   Marks, Gerald ^d  

^a KAISER PERMANENTE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b LAC USC MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^d DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e Department of Surgery ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METASTASIS; PROGNOSIS; RECTUM CANCER; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RECTUM; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0031711859     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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