Surgical Management of Rectal Cancer

Seminars in Oncology

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 241-249

  Rajput, Ashwani ^a   Bullard Dunn, Kelli ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANASTOMOSIS; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; COLOSTOMY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIGITAL RECTAL EXAMINATION; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FECES INCONTINENCE; HUMAN; ILEOSTOMY; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PELVIS EXENTERATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTOSCOPY; RECTUM CANCER; RECTUM SURGERY; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; URINARY EXCRETION;

DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SURGICAL PROCEDURES; ENTEROSTOMY; HUMANS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROCTOSCOPY; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RECTAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 34249889855     PISSN: 00937754     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.seminoncol.2007.03.005     Document Type: Article

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