Presence of distal intramural spread after preoperative combined-modality therapy for adenocarcinoma of the rectum: What is now the appropriate distal resection margin?

Surgery

Volumn 138, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 658-664

  Mezhir, James J ^a   Smith, Kerrington D ^a   Fichera, Alessandro ^a   Hart, John ^a   Posner, Mitchell C ^a   Hurst, Roger D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUOROURACIL; FOLINIC ACID; FORMALDEHYDE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METASTASIS; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM CARCINOMA; RECTUM SURGERY; TUMOR CELL;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM, RESIDUAL; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RECTAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 27544497585     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2005.06.048     Document Type: Article

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