The management of rectal cancer in Ireland in 2007 - room for improvement?

Surgeon

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 179-186

  Boyle, E ^a   Timmons, A ^b   Al Akash, M ^a   Kennedy, A M ^a   O'Grady, H ^a   Hill, A D ^a   Comber, H ^b   Keane, F B ^a  

^a ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS IN IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b NATIONAL CANCER REGISTRY IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Audit; Centralisation; Guidelines; Rectal cancer; Volume

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; COLONOSCOPY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; IRELAND; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PREVALENCE; RECTUM TUMOR; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

COLONOSCOPY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SURGICAL PROCEDURES; HUMANS; IRELAND; NEOPLASM STAGING; PREVALENCE; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79958819340     PISSN: 1479666X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surge.2010.09.006     Document Type: Article

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