Categorization of major and minor complications in the treatment of patients with resectable rectal cancer using short-term pre-operative radiotherapy and total mesorectal excision: A Delphi round

Colorectal Disease

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 302-308

  Bakx, R ^a,e   Emous, M ^a   Legemate, D A ^a   Machado, M ^d   Zoetmulder, F A N ^b   van Tets, W F ^c   Bemelman, W A ^a   Slors, J F M ^a   van Lanschot, J J B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b ANTONI VAN LEEUWENHOEK HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^c ONZE LIEVE VROUWE GASTHUIS   (Netherlands)

^d ERSTA HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^e NONE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Complications; Delphi round; Pre operative radiotherapy; Resectable rectal cancer; Total mesorectal excision

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CATHETER INFECTION; COMPARTMENT SYNDROME; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DEFECATION DISORDER; DISEASE SEVERITY; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEMALE SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; FISTULA; FLATULENCE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; LAPAROTOMY; LUNG EMBOLISM; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MICTURITION DISORDER; MORTALITY; PELVIS FRACTURE; PELVIS PAIN SYNDROME; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM CANCER; RECTUM RESECTION; REOPERATION; RETROGRADE EJACULATION; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SEPSIS; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; TENESMUS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINE RETENTION; VAGINA DISEASE; WOUND DEHISCENCE; WOUND INFECTION;

BELGIUM; COLORECTAL SURGERY; CONSENSUS; DELPHI TECHNIQUE; EXPERT TESTIMONY; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SWEDEN;

EID: 33645741551     PISSN: 14628910     EISSN: 14631318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-1318.2005.00937.x     Document Type: Article

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