Effects of centralization of colorectal surgery on the outcome of patients with distal sigmoid colonic cancer

Digestive Surgery

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 169-175

  Birgisson, Helgi ^a,b   Smedh, Kennet ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cancer; Colon; Colorectal

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CENTRALIZATION; COLON CANCER; COLORECTAL SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART FAILURE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL PATIENT; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; WOUND DEHISCENCE;

AGED; COLECTOMY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SIGMOID NEOPLASMS; SWEDEN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 65449143618     PISSN: 02534886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000213651     Document Type: Article

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