Defining quality in colon cancer surgery

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 30, Issue 15, 2012, Pages 1738-1740

  Madoff, Robert D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; COLON CANCER; COLON SURGERY; EDITORIAL; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; LIGATION; MESOCOLON; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGEON; TISSUE SECTION;

COLECTOMY; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; DISSECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MESOCOLON; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 84864003861     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: 15277755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2011.40.9615     Document Type: Editorial

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