Treatment of rectal cancer: Reduction of local recurrence after the introduction of TME - Experience from One University Hospital

Digestive Surgery

Volumn 23, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 51-59

  Bernardshaw, Soosaipillai V ^a   Øvrebø, Kjell ^b   Eide, Geir E ^b   Skarstein, Arne ^b   Røkke, Ola ^c  

^a ULLEVÅL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b HAUKELAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^c AKERSHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Mesorectal excision; Rectal cancer; Rectal cancer, complications; Rectal cancer, recurrence; Surgeons and rectal surgery; Total mesorectal excision

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ARTICLE; CANCER INHIBITION; CANCER INVASION; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RECURRENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SELECTION; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; RECTUM CANCER; REOPERATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAMPLE SIZE; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THERAPY EFFECT; TOTAL MESORECTAL EXCISION; TREATMENT RESPONSE; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RECTUM;

EID: 33746839209     PISSN: 02534886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000093494     Document Type: Article

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