Safety and efficacy of low anterior resection for rectal cancer: 681 Consecutive cases from a specialty service

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 230, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 544-554

  Enker, Warren E ^a   Merchant, Nipun ^a   Cohen, Alfred M ^a   Lanouette, Nicole M ^a   Swallow, Carol ^a   Guillem, Jose ^a   Paty, Philip ^a   Minsky, Bruce ^a   Weyrauch, Katherine ^a   Quan, Stuart H Q ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUOROURACIL; FOLINIC ACID;

ADULT; AGED; BLEEDING; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; OPERATION DURATION; PELVIS ABSCESS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE RADIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM CANCER; RECTUM RESECTION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT FAILURE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SURGICAL PROCEDURES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 0033504794     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000658-199910000-00010     Document Type: Conference Paper

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