Health disparity in complicated colorectal cancer

American Surgeon

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 164-167

  Bowman, Kimberly C ^a   Tabrizian, Parissa ^a   Telem, Dana A ^a   Boudourakis, Leon ^a   Divino, Celia M ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RECURRENCE; COLON OBSTRUCTION; COLON PERFORATION; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SOCIAL STATUS;

COLON; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; MALE; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEW YORK; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; RUPTURE, SPONTANEOUS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 77949509626     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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