Short course preoperative radiotherapy is the single most important risk factor for perineal wound complications after abdominoperineal excision of the rectum

Colorectal Disease

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 756-761

  Chadwick, Mike A ^a   Vieten, D ^b   Pettitt, E ^b   Dixon, A R ^b   Roe, A M ^a  

^a SOUTHMEAD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b FRENCHAY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Abdominoperineal; Radiotherapy; Rectal cancer; Wound

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; HEMOGLOBIN;

ABSCESS DRAINAGE; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEBRIDEMENT; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OPERATING ROOM; PATIENT CARE; PREOPERATIVE RADIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RECTUM ABDOMINOPERINEAL RESECTION; RECTUM CARCINOMA; RECTUM FISTULA; REOPERATION; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SUTURING METHOD; TREATMENT DURATION; WOUND COMPLICATION; WOUND DEHISCENCE; WOUND HEALING; WOUND HEALING IMPAIRMENT; WOUND INFECTION;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; PERINEUM; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 33749601258     PISSN: 14628910     EISSN: 14631318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-1318.2006.01029.x     Document Type: Article

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