Long-term quality of life in patients with rectal cancer: Association with severe postoperative complications and presence of a stoma

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum

Volumn 52, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1251-1258

  Bloemen, Johanne G ^a,b   Visschers, Ruben G J ^b   Truin, Wilfred ^b   Beets, Geerard L ^b   Konsten, Joop L M ^a  

^a VIECURI MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Postoperative complications; Quality of life; Rectal cancer; Rectal neoplasm; Stoma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; BODY IMAGE; CANCER SURGERY; COGNITION; CONSTIPATION; DEFECATION; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPNEA; EMOTION; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FEMALE SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; ILEUS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; MICTURITION; NAUSEA; ORGANIZATION; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECTUM CANCER; SCORING SYSTEM; SEPSIS; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SEXUAL SATISFACTION; SLEEP DISORDER; SOCIAL ASPECT; STOMA; SURGICAL PATIENT; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; WEIGHT REDUCTION; WOUND INFECTION; CARCINOMA; ILEOSTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECTUM TUMOR; RISK FACTOR; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; ILEOSTOMY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 67650754996     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: 15300358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/DCR.0b013e3181a74322     Document Type: Article

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