Function and quality of life after transanal excision of rectal polyps and cancers

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 598-603

  Fenech, Darlene S ^a   Takahashi, Takeshi ^a   Liu, Maria ^a   Spencer, Leia ^a   Swallow, Carol J ^a   Cohen, Zane ^a   MacRae, Helen M ^a   McLeod, Robin S ^a,b  

^a MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fecal incontinence; Local excision; Quality of life; Rectal cancer; Rectal neoplasm; Surgery; Transanal excision

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ANUS; BENIGN TUMOR; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SURGERY; CARCINOID; CAUSE OF DEATH; COPING BEHAVIOR; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; HYPERPLASIA; LIFESTYLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL RECORD; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECTUM ABDOMINOPERINEAL RESECTION; RECTUM CANCER; RECTUM CARCINOMA; RECTUM POLYP; RECURRENT CANCER; REVIEW; SALVAGE THERAPY; SCORING SYSTEM; SHAME; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANAL CANAL; BIOPSY; COLONIC POLYPS; FECAL INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34249899661     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: 15300358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10350-006-0865-y     Document Type: Review

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