Endoscopic laser palliation for rectal cancer: Therapeutic outcome and complications in eighty-three consecutive patients

Zeitschrift fur Gastroenterologie

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 551-556

  Jakobs, R ^a   Miola, J ^a   Eickhoff, A ^a   Adamek, H E ^a   Riemann, J F ^a  

^a KLINIKUM LUDWIGSHAFEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bleeding; Endoscopy; Laser; Obstruction; Palliation; Rectal Cancer

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; COLOSTOMY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; INTESTINE PERFORATION; LASER SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEODYMIUM LASER; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RECTOVAGINAL FISTULA; RECTUM CANCER; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; STENT; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; LASER SURGERY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PALLIATIVE CARE; PROCTOSCOPY; RECTAL DISEASES; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RECURRENCE; REOPERATION; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0036672473     PISSN: 00442771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2002-33414     Document Type: Article

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