Comparison of the erectile function in male patients with rectal cancer treated by preoperative radiotherapy followed by surgery and surgery alone

International Journal of Colorectal Disease

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 619-624

  Song, Phil Hyun ^a   Yun, Sang Mo ^a   Kim, Jae Hwang ^a   Moon, Ki Hak ^a  

^a Yeungnam University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Erectile dysfunction; Radiotherapy; Rectal cancer; Surgery

Indexed keywords

FLUOROURACIL; FOLINIC ACID;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGE; AGED; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; FATIGUE; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL INDEX OF ERECTILE FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEGAVOLTAGE RADIOTHERAPY; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PREOPERATIVE RADIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM ABDOMINOPERINEAL RESECTION; RECTUM ANTERIOR RESECTION; RECTUM CANCER; RECTUM SURGERY; SLEEP DISORDER; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

AGED; DEMOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PENILE ERECTION; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RECTAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 77953286449     PISSN: 01791958     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00384-010-0879-8     Document Type: Article

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