Emergency first presentation of colorectal cancer predicts significantly poorer outcomes: A review of 356 consecutive irish patients

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 678-684

  Bass, Gary ^a   Fleming, Cathy ^b   Conneely, John ^a   Martin, Zenia ^a   Mealy, Kenneth ^a  

^a WEXFORD GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^b ST LUKE S HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Colorectal neoplasms; Elective; Emergency; Ireland; Surgical procedures; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; COLON RESECTION; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HEMICOLECTOMY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; INTESTINE PERFORATION; INTESTINE RESECTION; IRELAND; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RECTUM ABDOMINOPERINEAL RESECTION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT INDICATION; CANCER INVASION; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL TUMOR; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRELAND; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 66849095448     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: 15300358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/DCR.0b013e3181a1d8c9     Document Type: Article

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