Anastomotic leakage: A disaster or a challenge with an impact on survival after rectal cancer surgery?

Colorectal Disease

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 237-238

  Penninckx, Freddy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; COLON J POUCH RECONSTRUCTION; COLON SURGERY; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; ILEOSTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM CANCER; REOPERATION; SURGICAL MORTALITY;

ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; ANASTOMOTIC LEAK; HUMANS; ILEOSTOMY; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 79951548658     PISSN: 14628910     EISSN: 14631318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-1318.2011.02563.x     Document Type: Editorial

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