Laparoscopic surgery for transverse and descending colon carcinomas has comparable safety to laparoscopic surgery for colon carcinomas at other sites

Digestive Surgery

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 487-492

  Yamamoto, Seiichiro ^a   Fujita, Shin ^a   Akasu, Takayuki ^a   Yamaguchi, Tomohiro ^a   Moriya, Yoshihiro ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Colon carcinoma; Descending colon carcinoma; Transverse colon carcinoma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASCENDING COLON; CARCINOMA; COLON RESECTION; COLON TUMOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DESCENDING COLON; FEMALE; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REPRODUCIBILITY; TRANSVERSE COLON; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA; COLECTOMY; COLON, ASCENDING; COLON, DESCENDING; COLON, TRANSVERSE; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 73649105536     PISSN: 02534886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000253875     Document Type: Article

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