Transanal endoscopic microsurgery in early rectal cancer: Time for a trial?

Colorectal Disease

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 314-327

  Suppiah, Aravind ^a   Maslekar, S ^a   Alabi, A ^a   Hartley, J E ^a   Monson, J R T ^a  

^a CASTLE HILL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cost effectiveness; Local excision; Quality of life; Rectal cancer; Transanal endoscopic microsurgery

Indexed keywords

CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCONTINENCE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MEDLINE; MICROSURGERY; MORBIDITY; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECTUM CANCER; RECTUM RESECTION; REVIEW; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSANAL ENDOSCOPIC MICROSURGERY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UROGENITAL TRACT DISEASE;

ANAL CANAL; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; HUMANS; MICROSURGERY; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RECTAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 42149153876     PISSN: 14628910     EISSN: 14631318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-1318.2007.01448.x     Document Type: Review

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