Optimal management of small rectal cancers: TAE, TEM, or TME?

Surgical Oncology Clinics of North America

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 743-760

  Garcia Aguilar, Julio ^a   Holt, Alicia ^a  

^a City of Hope ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Local excision; Neoadjuvant therapy; Rectal cancer; Total mesorectal excision; Transanal endoscopic microsurgery; Transanal excision

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT SELECTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECTUM CANCER; RECTUM RESECTION; RECTUM SURGERY; REVIEW; SALVAGE THERAPY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TOTAL MESORECTAL EXCISION; TRANSANAL ENDOSCOPIC MICROSURGERY; TRANSANAL EXCISION;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SURGICAL PROCEDURES; HUMANS; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; NEOPLASM STAGING; RADIOTHERAPY; RECTAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 77957111456     PISSN: 10553207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soc.2010.08.002     Document Type: Review

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