Decreased interstitial cells of cajal in the neorectum after anterior resection of the rectum

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 53, Issue 71, 2006, Pages 665-668

  Nishimura, Masaki ^a   Koda, Keiji ^a   Oda, Kenji ^a   Seike, Kazuhiro ^a   Kosugi, Chihiro ^a   Shimizu, Kimio ^a   Tonooka, Tom ^a   Miyazaki, Masaru ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

c kit; Defecatory dysfunction; Interstitial cells of Cajal; Neorectum

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; STEM CELL FACTOR;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CELL COUNT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLON CARCINOMA; COLON RESECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFECATION; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERSTITIAL CELL OF CAJAL; MALE; MUSCLE; MYENTERIC PLEXUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM ANTERIOR RESECTION; SIGMOID;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLON, SIGMOID; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYENTERIC PLEXUS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RECTUM; REOPERATION;

EID: 33750600569     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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