Long-term anorectal function after postoperative chemoradiotherapy in high-risk rectal cancer patients

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Volumn 96, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 34-41

  Lupattelli, Marco ^a   Mascioni, Francesca ^a   Bellavita, Rita ^a   Draghini, Lorena ^a   Tarducci, Roberto ^b   Castagnoli, Paolo ^c   Russo, Giuseppe ^d   Aristei, Cynthia ^a  

^a Radiation Oncology Centre   (Italy)

^b Medical Physics   (Italy)

^c Surgery Division   (Australia)

^d Hospital of Perugia   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUOROURACIL;

ABDOMINAL CRAMP; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AGED; ANORECTAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DECISION MAKING; DEFECATION HABIT; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FLATULENCE; FOLLOW UP; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INCONTINENCE; LIQUID; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; OBSTRUCTION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; RECTUM CANCER; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; SCORING SYSTEM; SPHINCTER;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADULT; AGED; ANAL CANAL; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; DEFECATION; FEMALE; FLATULENCE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; NEOPLASM STAGING; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RECTUM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77950816111     PISSN: 03008916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1700/479.5648     Document Type: Article

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