Organ preservation in rectal cancer

British Journal of Surgery

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 269-270

  Penninckx, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANORECTAL DISEASE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER REGISTRY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; ORGAN PRESERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM CANCER; SHORT SURVEY; UROGENITAL TRACT DISEASE; ECHOGRAPHY; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; NOTE; RECTUM TUMOR;

ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; HUMANS; RECTAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 40749130027     PISSN: 00071323     EISSN: 13652168     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bjs.6158     Document Type: Short Survey

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