Functional disorders after rectal cancer resection: Does a rehabilitation programme improve anal continence and quality of life?

Colorectal Disease

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1231-1237

  Laforest, A ^a   Bretagnol, F ^a   Mouazan, A S ^a   Maggiori, L ^a   Ferron, M ^a   Panis, Y ^a  

^a BEAUJON HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Anal sphincter training; Functional results; Quality of life; Rectal cancer; Rehabilitation programme

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANAL SPHINCTER TRAINING; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ANUS CONTINENCE; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; HUMAN; ILEOSTOMY; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MALE; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PELVIC FLOOR MUSCLE TRAINING; PREOPERATIVE TREATMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECTUM CANCER; REHABILITATION; REOPERATION; SHORT FORM 36; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TOTAL MESORECTAL EXCISION;

ADULT; AGED; ANAL CANAL; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; BIOFEEDBACK, PSYCHOLOGY; COLON; EXERCISE THERAPY; FECAL INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RECTUM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84866391360     PISSN: 14628910     EISSN: 14631318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-1318.2012.02956.x     Document Type: Article

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