Quality of Life in Rectal Cancer Patients: A Four-Year Prospective Study

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 238, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 203-213

  Engel, Jutta ^a,b   Kerr, Jacqueline ^a   Schlesinger Raab, Anne ^a   Eckel, Renate ^a   Sauer, Hansjörg ^a   Hölzel, Dieter ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFECATION DISORDER; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTESTINE FUNCTION; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICTURITION DISORDER; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECTUM ANTERIOR RESECTION; RECTUM CARCINOMA; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT PLANNING; ABDOMINAL SURGERY; GERMANY; HEALTH SURVEY; METHODOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECTUM TUMOR;

AGED; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SURGICAL PROCEDURES; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RECTAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0041411668     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000658-200308000-00008     Document Type: Article

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