Colonic stents in the palliation of colorectal cancer

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 116, Issue 1176, 2003, Pages

  Carne, Peter W G ^a   Robertson, Greg ^a   Frizelle, Frank A ^a  

^a CHRISTCHURCH HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

CANCER GROWTH; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CARCINOMATOUS PERITONITIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLON ADENOCARCINOMA; COLORECTAL CANCER; COLORECTAL SURGERY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; INTESTINE FISTULA; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; LIVER METASTASIS; MORBIDITY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SIDE EFFECT; STENT; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; ADENOCARCINOMA; COLORECTAL TUMOR; PALLIATIVE THERAPY;

ADENOCARCINOMA; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; PALLIATIVE CARE; STENTS;

EID: 0038352124     PISSN: 11758716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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