Risk factors and management of presacral abscess following total mesorectal excision for rectal cancer

Digestive Surgery

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 317-321

  Veenhof, A A F A ^a   Brosens, R ^b   Engel, A F ^b   Van Der Peet, D L ^a   Cuesta, M A ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b ZAANS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Presacral abscess; Rectal cancer; TME

Indexed keywords

ABSCESS; ABSCESS DRAINAGE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL PERITONITIS; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; COLOSTOMY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POOR GENERAL CONDITION; PRESACRAL ABSCESS; RECTUM ABDOMINOPERINEAL RESECTION; RECTUM CANCER; RECTUM FISTULA; RECTUM SURGERY; RECURRENT DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TOTAL MESORECTAL EXCISION; TUMOR VOLUME;

ABSCESS; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; COLOSTOMY; DRAINAGE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SACROCOCCYGEAL REGION; SUTURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 68049106036     PISSN: 02534886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000231882     Document Type: Article

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