Four percent of patients undergoing colorectal cancer surgery may have synchronous appendiceal neoplasia

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum

Volumn 50, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1856-1859

  Khan, Muhammad Najm ^a   Moran, Brendan J ^a  

^a BASINGSTOKE AND NORTH HAMPSHIRE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Appendix tumors; Colorectal cancer; Synchronous cancer

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CARCINOID; COLON CARCINOMA; COLON RESECTION; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTADENOCARCINOMA; CYSTADENOMA; FEMALE; HEMICOLECTOMY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; PATIENT CARE; RECTUM CANCER; RISK FACTOR; VILLOUS ADENOMA;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICEAL NEOPLASMS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS, MULTIPLE PRIMARY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 35948988123     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: 15300358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10350-007-9033-2     Document Type: Article

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