Outcome after 'curative' surgery for carcinoma of the lower third of the rectum

British Journal of Surgery

Volumn 85, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1118-1120

  Topal, B ^b   Penninckx, F ^b   Kaufman, L ^a   Filez, L ^b   Aerts, R ^b   Ectors, N ^b   Kerremans, R ^b  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLADDER DYSFUNCTION; BLEEDING; CLINICAL TRIAL; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; GASTROINTESTINAL CARCINOMA; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; ILEUS; LUNG DISEASE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM CARCINOMA; RECTUM RESECTION; RECURRENCE RISK; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL; URETHRA FISTULA; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; WOUND INFECTION;

ADENOCARCINOMA; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SURGICAL PROCEDURES; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031858689     PISSN: 00071323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2168.1998.00781.x     Document Type: Article

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