Factors affecting anastomotic complications following anterior resection in rectal cancer

Colorectal Disease

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 801-807

  Lyall, Ashima ^a   Mc Adam, T K ^a   Townend, J ^b   Loudon, M A ^a  

^a ABERDEEN ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anastomotic complication; Anterior resection; Chemoradiotherapy; Neoadjuvant

Indexed keywords

FLUOROURACIL; FOLINIC ACID; STEROID;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; COLON FISTULA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM CANCER; RECTUM RESECTION;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; FECAL INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTESTINAL FISTULA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RECTUM;

EID: 35348903845     PISSN: 14628910     EISSN: 14631318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-1318.2006.01197.x     Document Type: Article

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