Initial Experience with Transanal Endoscopic Microsurgery: The Need for Understanding the Limitations

Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 958-962

  Steinhagen, Emily ^a   Chang, Gerard ^a   Guillem, J G ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon dioxide insufflation; Carcinoma in situ; Rectal adenoma; Rectal cancer; Transanal endoscopic microsurgery

Indexed keywords

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADENOMA; ADULT; AGED; ANAL CANAL; ARTICLE; CARCINOID; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RECTOSCOPY; RECTUM TUMOR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADENOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANAL CANAL; CARCINOID TUMOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROCTOSCOPY; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79955841538     PISSN: 1091255X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11605-011-1496-8     Document Type: Article

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