Radiation-induced rectal cancer originating from a rectocutaneous fistula: Report of a case

Surgery Today

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 706-709

  Yokoyama, Shozo ^a   Takifuji, Katsunari ^a   Arii, Kazuo ^a   Tanaka, Hajime ^a   Matsuda, Kenji ^a   Higashiguchi, Takashi ^a   Yamaue, Hiroki ^a  

^a WAKAYAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Presacral abscess; Radiation induced rectal cancer; Rectocutaneous fistula

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BARIUM ENEMA; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLONOSCOPY; COLOSTOMY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM FISTULA; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; FISTULOGRAPHY; FLUOROSCOPY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MICROSCOPY; PELVIS CANCER; RADIATION; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RECTOCUTANEOUS FISTULA; RECTUM ABDOMINOPERINEAL RESECTION; RECTUM CANCER; RECTUM DISEASE; STENOSIS; TUMOR BIOPSY; X IRRADIATION;

EID: 4043083499     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00595-004-2783-8     Document Type: Article

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