Mortality and anastomotic leakage after anterior resection for rectal cancer

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 59, Issue 115, 2012, Pages 721-723

  Piecuch, Jerzy ^a,b   Wiewiora, Maciej ^a,b   Jopek, Janusz ^a,b   Szrot, Monika ^a,b   Mazur, Ireneusz ^a,b   Zurawinski, Wojciech ^a,b   Sosada, Krystyn ^a,b  

^a Department of General and Bariatric Surgery and Emergency Medicine ^*  (France)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

Author keywords

Anterior resection; Leak; Mortality; Rectal cancer

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM CANCER; RECTUM SURGERY; TUMOR VOLUME; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANASTOMOTIC LEAK; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SURGICAL PROCEDURES; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLAND; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RENAL INSUFFICIENCY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL STAPLING; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84860520260     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5754/hge09424     Document Type: Article

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