Implementation of fast-track protocols in open and laparoscopic sphincter-preserving rectal cancer surgery: A multicenter, comparative, prospective, non-randomized study

Digestive Surgery

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 301-309

  Gouvas, Nikolaos ^a   Gogos Pappas, George ^b   Tsimogiannis, Konstantinos ^b   Tsimoyiannis, Evaghelos ^b   Dervenis, Christos ^a   Xynos, Evaghelos ^c  

^a AGIA OLGA HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b Hatzikosta Hospital   (Greece)

^c Creta Interclinic Hospital   (Greece)

Author keywords

Comparative; Fast track; Laparoscopy; Rectal cancer; Sphincter saving operations

Indexed keywords

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; ANAL CANAL; ARTICLE; COLON RESECTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FOLLOW UP; GREECE; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPY; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECTUM TUMOR; REOPERATION; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANAL CANAL; COLECTOMY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GREECE; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; REOPERATION; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84865588471     PISSN: 02534886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000342554     Document Type: Article

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