Extending the horizons of restorative rectal surgery: Intersphincteric resection for low rectal cancer

Colorectal Disease

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 3-15

  Tilney, H S ^a   Tekkis, Paris P ^a,b  

^a ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b ST MARK S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Intersphincteric resection; Rectal cancer; Ultralow anterior resection

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ANORECTAL PRESSURE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COLON POUCH; DEFECATION URGENCY; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; INTERSPHINCTERIC RESECTION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT SAFETY; PATIENT SELECTION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECTUM ANTERIOR RESECTION; RECTUM CANCER; RECTUM SURGERY; RECURRENCE RISK; RECURRENT CANCER; REVIEW; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ANAL CANAL; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; COLECTOMY; DEFECATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROCTOCOLECTOMY, RESTORATIVE; PROCTOSCOPY; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 36949020330     PISSN: 14628910     EISSN: 14631318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-1318.2007.01226.x     Document Type: Review

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