Outcomes for abdominoperineal resections are not worse than those of anterior resections

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 41-49

  Chuwa, Esther W L ^a   Seow Choen, Francis ^b  

^a SINGAPORE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^b MOUNT ELIZABETH MEDICAL CENTRE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Abdominoperineal resection; Anterior resection; Rectal cancer

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS; ANUS SPHINCTER; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; GENERAL HOSPITAL; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LOG RANK TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MORBIDITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECTUM ABDOMINOPERINEAL RESECTION; RECTUM ANTERIOR RESECTION; RECTUM CARCINOMA; RECTUM RESECTION; SURGICAL WARD; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR DIFFERENTIATION;

ABDOMEN; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANUS NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA; COLECTOMY; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PERITONEUM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 29244466438     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: 15300358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10350-005-0227-1     Document Type: Article

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