Local recurrence following curative low anterior resection for rectal carcinoma

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 52, Issue 61, 2005, Pages 94-96

  Safioleas, Michael C ^a   Moulakakis, Konstantinos G ^a,d   Stamatakos, Michael ^a   Kountouras, Jannis ^b   Lygidakis, Nikolaos J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^c HENRY DUNANT HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^d NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Local recurrence; Low anterior resection; Mesorectal excision; Rectal cancer

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM ANTERIOR RESECTION; RECTUM CARCINOMA; RELAPSE; TREATMENT FAILURE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 14144253012     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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