Low anterior resection syndrome score: Development and validation of a symptom-based scoring system for bowel dysfunction after low anterior resection for rectal cancer

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 255, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 922-928

  Emmertsen, Katrine J ^a,b   Laurberg, Søren ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b RANDERS REGIONAL HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DEFECATION URGENCY; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTESTINAL DYSMOTILITY; INTESTINE FUNCTION; LIQUID FECES; LOW ANTERIOR RESECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECTUM CANCER; RECTUM SURGERY; SCORING SYSTEM;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DEFECATION; FECAL INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; FLATULENCE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; ROC CURVE; SYNDROME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84859920770     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e31824f1c21     Document Type: Article

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