Laparoscopic Total Mesorectal Excision: A Consecutive Series of 100 Patients

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 237, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 335-342

  Morino, Mario ^a   Parini, Umberto ^b   Giraudo, Giuseppe ^a   Salval, Micky ^b   Contul, Riccardo Brachet ^b   Garrone, Corrado ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b Aosta Hospital   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANUS SPHINCTER; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FISTULA; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; MORBIDITY; OPERATION DURATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM CARCINOMA; REOPERATION; REVIEW; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING; ADENOCARCINOMA; ADENOMA; ARTICLE; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; LAPAROSCOPY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECTUM; RECTUM TUMOR; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADENOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RECTUM; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0037362954     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000658-200303000-00006     Document Type: Review

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