Laparoscopic colectomy survival benefit for colon cancer: Is evidence from a randomized trial true?

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 249, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 695-696

  Ziogas, Dimosthenis ^a   Polychronidis, Alexandros ^b   Kanellos, Ioannis ^c   Roukos, Dimitrios ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

^c ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLON CANCER; COLON RESECTION; GENETIC RISK; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SURGICAL APPROACH; CANCER STAGING; CAUSE OF DEATH; COLON TUMOR; COLONOSCOPY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; NOTE; PATHOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CAUSE OF DEATH; COLECTOMY; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; COLONOSCOPY; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 65449167289     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e31819f26e9     Document Type: Letter

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