Modern management of rectal cancer

Digestive Surgery

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 1-20

  Pricolo, Victor E ^a,b   Potenti, Fabio M ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Colorectal carcinoma, management; Rectum

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; FLUOROURACIL; FOLINIC ACID; IRINOTECAN;

CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; HUMAN; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PROGNOSIS; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RECTUM CARCINOMA; RECURRENT CANCER; REVIEW;

ADENOCARCINOMA; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; COLONOSCOPY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SURGICAL PROCEDURES; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0035103725     PISSN: 02534886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000050091     Document Type: Review

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