Oncologic outcomes of robotic-assisted total mesorectal excision for the treatment of rectal cancer

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 251, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 882-886

  Baek, Jeong Heum ^a,b   McKenzie, Shaun ^b   Garcia Aguilar, Julio ^b   Pigazzi, Alessio ^b  

^a Gachon University   (South Korea)

^b CITY OF HOPE NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; COLORECTAL ANASTOMOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPERATION DURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECTUM ABDOMINOPERINEAL RESECTION; RECTUM CANCER; RECTUM SURGERY; ROBOTIC ASSISTED TOTAL MESORECTAL EXCISION; ROBOTICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SURGICAL PROCEDURES; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MESORIDAZINE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; ROBOTICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77951666542     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e3181c79114     Document Type: Article

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