Practice parameters for the management of colonic cancer I: Surgical issues. Recommendations of the colorectal surgical society of Australia

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Surgery

Volumn 69, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 415-421

  Moore, J ^a,a,b   Hewett, P ^a   Penfold, J C ^a   Adams, W ^a   Cartmill, J ^a   Chapuis, P ^a   Cunningham, I ^a   Farmer, K C ^a   Hoffmann, D ^a   Jass, J ^a   Jones, I ^a   Killingback, M ^a   Levitt, M ^a   Lumley, J ^a   Mcleish, A ^a   Meagher, A ^a   Newland, R ^a   Newstead, G ^a   Oakley, J ^a   Olver, I ^a   Platell, C ^a   Polglase, A ^a   Sarre, R ^a   Schache, D ^a   Solomon, M ^a   Stewart, P ^a   Stitz, R ^a   Sweeney, J ^a   Tjandra, J ^a   Waxman, B ^a   more..

^a PRINCE OF WALES HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b PRINCE OF WALES PRIVATE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adjuvant treatment; Cancer screening; Clinical practice guidelines; Colitis; Colonic cancer; Familial adenomatous polyposis; Familial colorectal cancer; Hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer syndrome; Liver metastases

Indexed keywords

ADENOMATOUS POLYP; ADJUVANT THERAPY; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; AUSTRALIA; CANCER SCREENING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COLON CANCER; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; COUNSELING; FAMILIAL CANCER; GENETIC DISORDER; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPY; LIVER METASTASIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; REVIEW; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; AUSTRALIA; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; COLONIC POLYPS; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MEDICAL AUDIT; NEOPLASM STAGING; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; THROMBOEMBOLISM;

EID: 0033067857     PISSN: 00048682     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1622.1999.01603.x     Document Type: Review

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