Sphincter-preserving operations following preoperative chemoradiation: An alternative to abdominoperineal resection for lower rectal cancer?

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1116-1123

  Huh, Jung Wook ^a   Jung, Eun Joo ^a   Park, Yoon Ah ^a   Lee, Kang Young ^a   Sohn, Seung Kook ^a  

^a Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOXIFLURIDINE; FLUOROURACIL; FOLINIC ACID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RECTUM ABDOMINOPERINEAL RESECTION; RECTUM CANCER; RECTUM RESECTION; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; SPHINCTER; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINE RETENTION; WOUND INFECTION;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANAL CANAL; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; COLECTOMY; FEMALE; FLUOROURACIL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RECTUM; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 43949111633     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: 14322323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-008-9520-1     Document Type: Article

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