A comparison between the treatment of low rectal cancer in japan and the netherlands, focusing on the patterns of local recurrence

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 249, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 229-235

  Kusters, Miranda ^a   Beets, Geerard L ^b   Van De Velde, Cornelis J H ^a   Beets Tan, Regina G H ^b   Marijnen, Corrie A M ^c   Rutten, Harm J T ^d   Putter, Hein ^a   Moriya, Yoshihiro ^e  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c NETHERLANDS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^d CATHARINA HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^e NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPAN; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NETHERLANDS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM ABDOMINOPERINEAL RESECTION; RECTUM CANCER; RECTUM SURGERY; RECURRENCE RISK; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TOTAL MESORECTAL EXCISION; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PATHOLOGY; RECTUM TUMOR; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

AGED; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NETHERLANDS; RECTAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 61549110170     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e318190a664     Document Type: Article

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