Impact of neoadjuvant chemoradiation on anal sphincter function in patients with carcinoma of the midrectum and low rectum

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 138, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 257-261

  Ammann, Karlheinz ^a   Kirchmayr, Werner ^a   Klaus, Alexander ^a   Mühlmann, Gilbert ^a   Kafka, Reinhold ^a   Oberwalder, Michael ^a   De Vries, Alexander ^a   Öfner, Dietmar ^a   Weiss, Helmut ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUOROURACIL;

ADULT; AGED; ANORECTAL PRESSURE; ANUS SPHINCTER; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RECTUM ANTERIOR RESECTION; RECTUM CARCINOMA;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; ANAL CANAL; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MANOMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RECTAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0037337403     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.138.3.257     Document Type: Article

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