Laparoscopic and robotic rectal cancer resection: Expectations for improving oncological outcomes

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 251, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 185-186

  Balli, Christina ^a   Ziogas, Dimisthenis ^a   Roukos, Dimitrios H ^a   Baltogiannis, George ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; COLON RESECTION; COLORECTAL CANCER; GENOTYPE; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LETTER; MESENTERY BLOOD VESSEL; MORBIDITY; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECTUM CANCER; RECTUM RESECTION; ROBOTICS; SURGEON; LAPAROSCOPY; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; NOTE; RECTUM TUMOR; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; ROBOTICS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE;

EID: 74049133637     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e3181c79990     Document Type: Letter

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