The specialty of colon and rectal surgery: Its impact on patient care and role in academic medicine

Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine

Volumn 76, Issue 1-6, 2003, Pages 63-77

  Longo, Walter E ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; MESALAZINE; PROSTAGLANDIN SYNTHASE INHIBITOR; STEROID;

ANASTOMOSIS; ANATOMY; ANORECTAL DISEASE; CANCER SCREENING; CARCINOGENESIS; COLON SURGERY; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONFERENCE PAPER; ENTERITIS; GENERAL SURGERY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; INTESTINE SURGERY; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL EXPERT; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MEDICAL STUDENT; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PATIENT CARE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCTOLOGY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECTUM SURGERY; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; SIDE EFFECT; STOMA; COLON; EDUCATION; RECTUM; REVIEW; STANDARD; SURGERY;

COLON; HUMANS; PATIENT CARE; RECTUM; SURGERY;

EID: 22244468696     PISSN: 00440086     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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