Rectal cancer surgery in the elderly: Analysis of consecutive 158 patients with stage III rectal cancer

Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery

Volumn 392, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 549-558

  Hotta, Tsukasa ^a   Takifuji, Katsunari ^a   Yokoyama, Shozo ^a   Matsuda, Kenji ^a   Higashiguchi, Takashi ^a   Tominaga, Toshiji ^a   Oku, Yoshimasa ^a   Nasu, Toru ^a   Yamaue, Hiroki ^a  

^a WAKAYAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Elderly; Rectal cancer; Stage III

Indexed keywords

FLUOROURACIL; FOLINIC ACID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; GROUPS BY AGE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RECTUM CANCER; RECTUM SURGERY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURVIVAL RATE;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PELVIC EXENTERATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RECTUM;

EID: 34547830200     PISSN: 14352443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00423-007-0199-9     Document Type: Article

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