Model for collecting colorectal cancer staging information in Western Australia

ANZ Journal of Surgery

Volumn 74, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 895-899

  Boutard, Padabphet ^a   Platell, Cameron ^a,b   Threlfall, Tim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b FREMANTLE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Colon cancer; Colorectal cancer; Lymph nodes; Metastases; Rectal cancer; Staging; Survival

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; COLON RESECTION; COLORECTAL CANCER; EXCISION; FEMALE; HEMICOLECTOMY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LAPAROTOMY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PROCTOCOLECTOMY; RECTUM ABDOMINOPERINEAL RESECTION; RECTUM ANTERIOR RESECTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 8444235446     PISSN: 14451433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-1433.2004.03199.x     Document Type: Article

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