The strategy "wait and watch" in patients with a cancer of bottom stocking rectum with a complete clinical answer after neoadjuvant radiochemotherapy;La stratégie «attendre et surveiller» chez les patients ayant un cancer du bas rectum avec une réponse clinique complète après radiochimiothérapie néoadjuvante

Journal de Chirurgie

Volumn 146, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 237-239

  Habr Gama, A ^a   Oliva Perez, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADJUVANT THERAPY; DECISION TREE; EDITORIAL; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; RECTUM TUMOR; REMISSION;

DECISION TREES; HUMANS; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; REMISSION INDUCTION;

EID: 70449728176     PISSN: 00217697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jchir.2009.07.002     Document Type: Note

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