Tumor pathology and long-term survival in emergency colorectal cancer

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 223-230

  Wong, Siu Kin C ^a,b,d   Jalaludin, Bin B ^a,b,c   Morgan, Matthew J ^a   Berthelsen, Angela S ^a   Morgan, Ann ^a   Gatenby, Andrew H ^a   Fulham, Stephen B ^a  

^a Sydney South West Area Health Service   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c Centre for Research Evidence Management and Surveillance   (Australia)

^d SWS Colorectal Unit R103   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bowel obstruction; Colorectal cancer; Emergency; Epidemiology

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ANEMIA; APPENDICITIS; ARTICLE; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SURVIVAL; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; INTESTINE PERFORATION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; PATHOLOGY; PERITONITIS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECTUM CANCER; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; VOMITING;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLECTOMY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; EMERGENCIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEW SOUTH WALES; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 39149141883     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: 15300358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10350-007-9094-2     Document Type: Article

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