Transanal endoscopic microsurgery for T1 and T2 rectal cancers: A meta-analysis and meta-regression analysis of outcomes

American Surgeon

Volumn 77, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 761-772

  Sgourakis, George ^a   Lanitis, Sophocles ^a   Gockel, Ines ^b   Kontovounisios, Christos ^a   Karaliotas, Charilaos ^a   Tsiftsi, Katerina ^a   Tsiamis, Achilleas ^c   Karaliotas, Constantine C ^a  

^a RED CROSS HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER MAINZ   (Germany)

^c JAMES PAGET UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; META ANALYSIS; MICROSURGERY; MORBIDITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RECTUM CANCER; RECTUM SURGERY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TRANSANAL ENDOSCOPIC MICROSURGERY; TRANSANAL EXCISION;

ANAL CANAL; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; HUMANS; MICROSURGERY; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; ODDS RATIO; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79958156501     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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