Bowel dysfunction after treatment for rectal cancer

Acta Oncologica

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 994-1003

  Emmertsen, Katrine J ^a   Laurberg, Søren ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ANASTOMOSIS; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; ENTEROPATHY; HUMAN; INTESTINE FUNCTION; NERVE STIMULATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM ABDOMINOPERINEAL RESECTION; RECTUM ANTERIOR RESECTION; RECTUM CANCER; REVIEW; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; CHRONIC DISEASE; COLON; COLONIC POUCHES; COLOSTOMY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SURGICAL PROCEDURES; FECAL INCONTINENCE; HUMANS; IRRIGATION; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RECTUM; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCUTANEOUS ELECTRIC NERVE STIMULATION;

EID: 51149103309     PISSN: 0284186X     EISSN: 1651226X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02841860802195251     Document Type: Review

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