Bowel obstruction in patients with metastatic cancer: Does intervention influence outcome?

International Journal of Gastrointestinal Cancer

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 127-133

  Pameijer, Colette R ^a   Mahvi, David M ^a   Stewart, James A ^a   Weber, Sharon M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Bowel obstruction; Metastatic cancer; Outcome; Palliative care; Palliative surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; CANCER SURVIVAL; COLON SURGERY; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC CANCER; HUMAN; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ARTICLE; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; GASTROINTESTINAL TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; PALLIATIVE CARE; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 24344438911     PISSN: 01694197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1385/ijgc:35:2:127     Document Type: Review

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