Impaired anastomotic healing after preoperative radiotherapy followed by anterior resection for treatment of rectal carcinoma

South African Journal of Surgery

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 12-16

  Vermeulen, Jefrey ^a   Lange, Johan F ^a   Van Der Harst, Erwin ^a  

^a Medisch Centrum Rijnmond Zuid   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSCESS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROCUTANEOUS FISTULA; FEMALE; HUMAN; ILEUS; MALE; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RECTUM CARCINOMA; STENOSIS; WOUND INFECTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; CARCINOMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 33645384450     PISSN: 00382361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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