Perforated rectal cancer presenting as Fournier's gangrene

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 28, Issue 30, 2010, Pages

  Carr, John Alfred ^a  

^a HURLEY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOL LIVER CIRRHOSIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLOSTOMY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEBRIDEMENT; ENDOSCOPY; FOURNIER GANGRENE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LAPAROTOMY; LIVER METASTASIS; MALE; ORCHIECTOMY; PERFORATED RECTAL CANCER; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM ABDOMINOPERINEAL RESECTION; RECTUM CANCER; RECTUM CARCINOMA; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; SKIN GRAFT; ADENOCARCINOMA; ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; INTESTINE PERFORATION; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; RECTUM TUMOR; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADENOCARCINOMA; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; COLOSTOMY; DEBRIDEMENT; FOURNIER GANGRENE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL PERFORATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; ORCHIECTOMY; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 78049514585     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: 15277755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2010.29.5394     Document Type: Article

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