Total Mesorectal Excision, Lateral Lymphadenectomy and Autonomic Nerve Preservation for Lower Rectal Cancer: Significance in the Long-term Follow-up Study

Kurume Medical Journal

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 307-319

  Shirouzu, Kazuo ^a   Ogata, Yutaka ^a   Araki, Yasumi ^a   Sasatomi, Teruo ^a   Nozoe, Yasuhiro ^a   Nakagawa, Motonori ^a   Matono, Keiko ^a  

^a KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Autonomic nerve preservation; Disease free survival; Lateral lymphadenectomy; Local recurrence; Rectal cancer; Total mesorectal excision

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; RECTUM; RECTUM TUMOR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RECTUM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0035748017     PISSN: 00235679     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2739/kurumemedj.48.307     Document Type: Article

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