Vascular anatomy of the rectal stump after total mesorectal excision

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum

Volumn 49, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1897-1904

  Nano, Mario ^a,b   Marchisio, Filippo ^a   Ferronato, Marco ^a   Breatta, Andrea Doriguzzi ^a   Solej, Mario ^a   Barbero, Stefano ^a   Dei Poli, Marcello ^a   Gandini, Giovanni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b Department of Clinical Pathophysiology ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

Angio CT; Leakage; Rectal anatomy; Rectal stump; Rectal vascularization; Total mesorectal excision

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; RECTUM CANCER; RECTUM SURGERY; SURGICAL ANATOMY; TOTAL MESORECTAL EXCISION; VASCULARIZATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOGRAPHY; CADAVER; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SURGICAL PROCEDURES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RECTUM; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33845195325     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: 15300358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10350-006-0734-8     Document Type: Article

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