Intra-operative perforation is an important predictor of local recurrence and impaired survival after abdominoperineal resection for rectal cancer

Colorectal Disease

Volumn 13, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1256-1264

  Bulow S ^a   Christensen, I J ^b   Iversen, L H ^c   Harling, H ^d  

^a HVIDOVRE HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b FINSEN LABORATORY   (Denmark)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^d BISPEBJERG HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Abdominioperineal resection; Local recurrence; Rectal cancer; Tumour perforation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; DISTANT METASTASIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM ABDOMINOPERINEAL RESECTION; RECTUM CANCER; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ABDOMEN; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL PERFORATION; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PERINEUM; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RECTAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 80054041815     PISSN: 14628910     EISSN: 14631318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-1318.2010.02459.x     Document Type: Article

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