Reconstructive surgery of the pelvis after surgery for rectal cancer

Seminars in Surgical Oncology

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 259-264

  Small, Tzvi ^a   Friedman, David J ^a,b   Sultan, Mark ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Abdominal muscles transplantation; Blood vessels; Female genital neoplasms surgery; Fistula etiology; Informed consent; Morbidity; Omentum; Operative surgical procedures; Patient education; Pelvic exenteration; Pelvis surgery; Perineum surgery; Postoperative complications; Preoperative care; Radiotherapy adverse effects; Rectal neoplasms; Rectus abdominis surgery; Sex behavior; Skeletal muscles transplantation; Surgic al anastomosis; Surgical flaps; Treatment failure; Treatment outcome; Vagina surgery; Wound healing

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; INTESTINE RESECTION; MUSCLE FLAP; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; PELVIS SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM CANCER; REVIEW; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VAGINA RECONSTRUCTION; WOUND CLOSURE;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PELVIC FLOOR; PERINEUM; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; SURGICAL FLAPS; VAGINA;

EID: 0034116664     PISSN: 87560437     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2388(200004/05)18:3<259::AID-SSU10>3.0.CO;2-2     Document Type: Review

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