Anastomotic leakage after low anterior resection for rectal cancer: Facts, obscurity, and fiction

Surgery Today

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 183-188

  Taflampas, Panagiotis ^a   Christodoulakis, Manousos ^a   Tsiftsis, Dimitrios D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Leakage; Low anterior resection; Rectal cancer; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CIGARETTE SMOKING; END TO SIDE ANASTOMOSIS; HUMAN; INTESTINE PREPARATION; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MALNUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OMENTOPLASTY; PELVIS; PREOPERATIVE TREATMENT; RECTUM ANASTOMOSIS; RECTUM ANTERIOR RESECTION; RECTUM CANCER; RECTUM SURGERY; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; STAPLER; STOMA; SURGEON; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ALCOHOLISM; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASM STAGING; NUTRITION DISORDERS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SMOKING; SURGICAL STOMAS;

EID: 62449206901     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: 14362813     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00595-008-3835-2     Document Type: Review

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