Transanal endoscopic microsurgery for rectal neoplasms: Experience of 300 consecutive cases

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum

Volumn 52, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1831-1836

  Allaix, Marco Ettore ^a   Arezzo, Alberto ^a   Caldart, Mario ^a   Festa, Federico ^a   Morino, Mario ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Rectal adenocarcinoma; Rectal adenoma; Transanal endoscopic microsurgery

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CARCINOID; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMOR; HISTOLOGY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LEIOMYOSARCOMA; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER METASTASIS; LOCAL THERAPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MORBIDITY; OPERATION DURATION; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PERITONEUM; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; RECTOVAGINAL FISTULA; RECTUM; RECTUM ADENOMA; RECTUM CARCINOMA; RECTUM SURGERY; RECTUM TUMOR; RECTUM ULCER; RECURRENCE RISK; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TRANSANAL ENDOSCOPIC MICROSURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND DEHISCENCE; DIGESTIVE TRACT ENDOSCOPY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ENDOSCOPY, DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 75349085039     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: 15300358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/DCR.0b013e3181b14d2d     Document Type: Article

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