TEM/local excision: Indications, techniques, outcomes, and the future

Journal of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 96, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 644-650

  Saclarides, Theodore J ^a  

^a RUSH MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Endoscopic; Microsurgery; Transanal excision

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE;

CANCER STAGING; COLONOSCOPY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; MICROSURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTOVAGINAL FISTULA; RECTUM ADENOMA; REVIEW; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSANAL ENDOSCOPIC MICROSURGERY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADENOMA; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FORECASTING; HUMANS; INSUFFLATION; MICROSURGERY; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; NEOPLASM STAGING; PATIENT SELECTION; PROCTOSCOPES; PROCTOSCOPY; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 38149018548     PISSN: 00224790     EISSN: 10969098     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jso.20922     Document Type: Review

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