Transanal endoscopic microsurgery for residual rectal cancer (ypT0-2) following neoadjuvant chemoradiation therapy: Another word of caution

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 6-13

  Perez, Rodrigo Oliva ^a,b,c   Habr Gama, Angelita ^a,b   Lynn, Patricio Bernardo ^a   Julião, Guilherme Pagin São ^a,b   Bianchi, Romina ^a   Proscurshim, Igor ^a   Gama Rodrigues, Joaquim ^a,b  

^a Angelita and Joaquim Gama Institute   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c R Manoel da Nobrega   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Local excision; Local recurrence; Neoadjuvant therapy; Rectal cancer; Transanal endoscopic microsurgery

Indexed keywords

FLUOROURACIL;

ADULT; ANUS; ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER INVASION; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER REGRESSION; CANCER SIZE; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MINIMAL RESIDUAL DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PREDICTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECTUM; RECTUM CARCINOMA; RISK ASSESSMENT; STENOSIS; TRANSANAL ENDOSCOPIC MICROSURGERY; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; ANAL CANAL; BRAZIL; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; FLUOROURACIL; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; NEOPLASM GRADING; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOPLASM, RESIDUAL; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROCTOSCOPY; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RECTUM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84872174958     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: 15300358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/DCR.0b013e318273f56f     Document Type: Article

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