Extended lymphadenectomy versus conventional surgery for rectal cancer: a meta-analysis

The Lancet Oncology

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1053-1062

  Georgiou, Panagiotis ^a,b   Tan, Emile ^a,b   Gouvas, Nikolaos ^a   Antoniou, Anthony ^a,b   Brown, Gina ^b   Nicholls, R John ^a,b   Tekkis, Paris ^a,b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL MARSDEN HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; HUMAN; MALE SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; META ANALYSIS; OPERATION DURATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PELVIS LYMPHADENECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM CANCER; RECTUM RESECTION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL TIME; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; URINARY DYSFUNCTION;

ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; ODDS RATIO; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINATION DISORDERS; WESTERN WORLD;

EID: 71249153808     PISSN: 14702045     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1470-2045(09)70224-4     Document Type: Article

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