Have early postoperative complications from laparoscopic rectal cancer surgery improved over the past 20 years?

Colorectal Disease

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1211-1226

  Shearer, R ^a   Gale, M ^a   Aly, O E ^a   Aly, E H ^a  

^a ABERDEEN ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Complications; Laparoscopic; Rectal surgery

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADJUVANT CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CANCER STAGING; CASE STUDY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONVERSION TO OPEN SURGERY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM FUNCTION DISORDER; EMBASE; FECES INCONTINENCE; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LENGTH OF STAY; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDLINE; META ANALYSIS; MORBIDITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RECTUM CANCER; RECTUM SURGERY; REOPERATION; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; STOMA; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; URINARY DYSFUNCTION;

COMPLICATIONS; LAPAROSCOPIC; RECTAL SURGERY;

ANASTOMOTIC LEAK; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; DEFECATION; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; LENGTH OF STAY; NEOPLASM, RESIDUAL; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; REOPERATION; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; URINATION DISORDERS;

EID: 84886265875     PISSN: 14628910     EISSN: 14631318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/codi.12302     Document Type: Article

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