Prognostic significance of both surgical and pathological assessment of curative resection for rectal cancer

British Journal of Surgery

Volumn 91, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1040-1045

  Martling, A ^a   Singnomklao, T ^a   Holm, T ^a   Rutqvist, L E ^a   Cedermark, B ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATHOLOGIST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RECTUM CANCER; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURGEON; SURVIVAL RATE; MEDICAL STAFF; META ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATHOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECTUM TUMOR; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD; SURGERY; SURVIVAL; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL STAFF, HOSPITAL; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATHOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURGERY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 4043132418     PISSN: 00071323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bjs.4557     Document Type: Article

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