Transanal endoscopic microsurgery versus conventional transanal excision for patients with early rectal cancer

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 249, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 776-782

  Christoforidis, Dimitrios ^a,b   Cho, Hyeon Min ^a,c   Dixon, Matthew R ^a,d   Mellgren, Anders F ^a   Madoff, Robert D ^a,e   Finne, Charles O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^c The Catholic University of Korea   (South Korea)

^d KAISER PERMANENTE   (United States)

^e Division of Colon and Rectal Surgery   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARLY CANCER; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM CANCER; RECTUM SURGERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANAL CANAL; ENDOSCOPY, DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PATIENT SELECTION; PROGNOSIS; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 67649544196     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e3181a3e54b     Document Type: Article

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