Primary perineal wound closure after preoperative radiotherapy and abdominoperineal resection has a high incidence of wound failure

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 438-443

  Bullard, Kelli M ^a,b   Trudel, Judith L ^a   Baxter, Nancy N ^a   Rothenberger, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b MMC 450 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Abdominoperineal resection; Radiation therapy; Rectal cancer; Wound healing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; DEBRIDEMENT; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; PERINEUM; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE TREATMENT; RADIATION DOSE; RECTUM ABDOMINOPERINEAL RESECTION; RECTUM CARCINOMA; REOPERATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL WOUND; WOUND CLOSURE; WOUND HEALING IMPAIRMENT; WOUND INFECTION; ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ADJUVANT THERAPY; CARCINOMA; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PATHOLOGY; RADIATION INJURY; RECTUM TUMOR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; WOUND HEALING;

AGED; CARCINOMA; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; PERINEUM; RADIATION INJURIES; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 18744391409     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10350-004-0827-1     Document Type: Article

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