Anterior resection for rectal cancer with mesorectal excision: A prospective evaluation of 622 patients

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 240, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 260-268

  Law, Wai Lun ^a   Chu, Kin Wah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; EXCISION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECTUM CANCER; RECTUM RESECTION; RECTUM SURGERY; REVIEW; SIGMOID CARCINOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; COHORT STUDIES; COLORECTAL SURGERY; EVALUATION STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROBABILITY; PROCTOSCOPY; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SIGMOID NEOPLASMS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURGICAL STAPLING; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 3242685186     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.sla.0000133185.23514.32     Document Type: Review

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