Sphincter preservation after short-term preoperative radiotherapy for low rectal cancer: Presentation of own data and a literature review

Acta Oncologica

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 593-601

  Bujko, K ^a   Nowacki, M P ^a   Oledzki J ^a   Sopyo, R ^a   Skoczylas, J ^a   Chwalinski M ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRRADIATION; PATIENT TREATMENT; RADIOTHERAPY; SURGERY; TUMORS;

SPHINCTER PRESERVATION;

ONCOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; ANUS SPHINCTER; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; COLOSTOMY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREOPERATIVE RADIOTHERAPY; PRESERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RECTUM CANCER; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANAL CANAL; DOSE FRACTIONATION; FECAL INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; FLATULENCE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PAIN; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROCTITIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RECTAL FISTULA; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VAGINAL FISTULA;

EID: 0034794718     PISSN: 0284186X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/028418601750444132     Document Type: Article

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