Does anastomotic leakage affect functional outcome after rectal resection for cancer?

Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery

Volumn 387, Issue 11-12, 2003, Pages 406-410

  Bittorf, Birgit ^a   Stadelmaier, Uwe ^a   Merkel, Susanne ^a   Hohenberger, Werner ^a   Matzel, Klaus E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anastomotic leakage; Incontinence function; Postoperative complication; Sphincter preserving rectal cancer surgery

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ANORECTAL PRESSURE; ANUS SPHINCTER; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; COMPLIANCE (PHYSICAL); CONTINENCE; CONVALESCENCE; ENDOSCOPY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCLE FUNCTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOGRAPHY; RECTUM CANCER; RECTUM RESECTION; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0037299610     PISSN: 14352443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00423-003-0349-7     Document Type: Article

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