Definition and grading of anastomotic leakage following anterior resection of the rectum: A proposal by the International Study Group of Rectal Cancer

Surgery

Volumn 147, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 339-351

  Rahbari, Nuh N ^a   Weitz, Jürgen ^a   Hohenberger, Werner ^b   Heald, Richard J ^c   Moran, Brendan ^c   Ulrich, Alexis ^a   Holm, Torbjörn ^d   Wong, W Douglas ^e   Tiret, Emmanuel ^f   Moriya, Yoshihiro ^g   Laurberg, Søren ^h   den Dulk, Marcel ⁱ   van de Velde, Cornelis ⁱ   Büchler, Markus W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c NORTH HAMPSHIRE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^e MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^f HÔPITAL SAINT ANTOINE   (France)

^g NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^h AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

ⁱ LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HUMAN; LAPAROTOMY; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM ANTERIOR RESECTION; RECTUM CANCER; REOPERATION;

ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; COLOSTOMY; HUMANS; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SUTURE TECHNIQUES;

EID: 76749128898     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2009.10.012     Document Type: Article

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