Transanal endoscopic microsurgery: Indications, results and controversies

Techniques in Coloproctology

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 105-111

  Dias, Andre Roncon ^a   Nahas, Caio Sergio Rizkallah ^a   Marques, Carlos Frederico Sparapan ^a   Nahas, Sergio Carlos ^a   Cecconello, Ivan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Combined modality therapy; Controversies; Early rectal cancer; Indications; Invasive cancer; Transanal endoscopic microsurgery (TEM)

Indexed keywords

BENIGN TUMOR; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER INVASION; EARLY CANCER; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; MICROSURGERY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RECTUM ADENOMA; RECTUM CANCER; RECTUM INJURY; RECTUM POLYP; RECURRENCE RISK; REVIEW; SALVAGE THERAPY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSANAL ENDOSCOPIC MICROSURGERY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADENOMA; ANAL CANAL; CARCINOMA; ENDOSCOPY; HUMANS; MICROSURGERY; PATIENT SELECTION; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 67650732170     PISSN: 11236337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10151-009-0466-6     Document Type: Review

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