Distal margins in radical resections for rectal cancer after chemoradiation therapy: How short is long enough?

Digestive Surgery

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 185-189

  Pricolo, Victor E ^a   Abodeely, Adam ^a   Resnick, Murray ^b  

^a Department of Surgery   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adenocarcinoma of rectum; Chemotherapy, rectal cancer; Immunohistochemistry, rectal cancer; Radiation therapy, rectal cancer; Rectal cancer; Resection margins; Tumor regression, rectal cancer

Indexed keywords

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PATHOLOGY; RECTUM TUMOR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 77953657914     PISSN: 02534886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000274464     Document Type: Article

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