Unacceptable variation in abdominoperineal excision rates for rectal cancer: Time to intervene?

Gut

Volumn 57, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1690-1697

  Morris, Eva ^a,b   Quirke, P ^a   Thomas, J D ^a   Fairley, L ^b   Cottier, B ^c   Forman, D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b ST JAMES S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c CLATTERBRIDGE CENTRE FOR ONCOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER STAGING; COLOSTOMY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM ABDOMINOPERINEAL RESECTION; RECTUM CANCER; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL STATUS; SURGEON; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANAL CANAL; COLORECTAL SURGERY; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); RECTAL NEOPLASMS; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOCIAL CLASS; STATE MEDICINE; SURGICAL STOMAS;

EID: 56549085764     PISSN: 00175749     EISSN: 14683288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/gut.2007.137877     Document Type: Article

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