Time to focus on the quality of colon-cancer surgery

The Lancet Oncology

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 815-817

  den Dulk, Marcel ^a   van de Velde, Cornelis JH ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLON CANCER; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LETTER; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY CONTROL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STANDARDIZATION; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME;

COLECTOMY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; EUROPE; HUMANS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE;

EID: 49949088693     PISSN: 14702045     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1470-2045(08)70216-X     Document Type: Letter

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