Faecal and urinary incontinence after multimodality treatment of rectal cancer

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1436-1439

  Lange, Marilyne M ^a   Van De Velde, Cornelis J H ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENEMA;

AGED; AGING; ANAMNESIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; COLON LAVAGE; COLORECTAL SURGERY; COLOSTOMY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DIET THERAPY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NERVE STIMULATION; PELVIC FLOOR MUSCLE TRAINING; PELVIC ORGAN PROLAPSE; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECTUM CANCER; REVIEW; STRESS INCONTINENCE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; URINE INCONTINENCE; ARTICLE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RADIOTHERAPY; RECTUM TUMOR;

AGED; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FECAL INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RADIOTHERAPY; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; URINARY INCONTINENCE;

EID: 55949122980     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050202     Document Type: Review

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