Anastomotic leak is not associated with oncologic outcome in patients undergoing low anterior resection for rectal cancer

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 256, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1034-1038

  Smith, James D ^b   Paty, Philip B ^b   Guillem, José G ^b   Temple, Larissa K ^b   Weiser, Martin R ^b   Nash, Garrett M ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

anastomotic leak; defunctioning stoma; oncologic outcome

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; LOCAL RECURRENCE FREE SURVIVAL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RECTUM CANCER; RECTUM CARCINOMA; RECTUM RESECTION; STOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ANASTOMOTIC LEAK; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84870054712     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e318257d2c1     Document Type: Article

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