Elective palliative resection of incurable stage IV colorectal cancer: Who really benefits from it?

Surgery Today

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 222-229

  Costi, Renato ^a,b   Di Mauro, Davide ^a   Veronesi, Licia ^a   Ardizzoni, Andrea ^c   Salcuni, Pierfranco ^a   Roncoroni, Luigi ^a   Sarli, Leopoldo ^a   Violi, Vincenzo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b AP HP ^*  (France)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Colorectal cancer; Mortality; Palliation; Surgery; Therapy

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL INFECTION; ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; AGE; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ARTICLE; CANCER MORPHOLOGY; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; ELDERLY CARE; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; ILEUS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LUNG EMBOLISM; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUCINOUS CARCINOMA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SELECTION; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PHLEBITIS; PLEURA DISEASE; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

ADENOCARCINOMA, MUCINOUS; AGE FACTORS; AGED; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; NEOPLASM STAGING; PALLIATIVE CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE;

EID: 79951661179     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: 14362813     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00595-009-4253-9     Document Type: Article

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