Close collaboration between local and specialist multidisciplinary teams allows 'fast-tracking' of patients with colorectal liver metastases

Colorectal Disease

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1253-1256

  Vasudevan, S P ^a   Cresswell, A B ^b   Wright, J M ^a   Rees, M ^b   Stiff, D ^a   Wordley, A ^a   Motson, R W ^a  

^a IPSWICH HOSPITAL NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b BASINGSTOKE AND NORTH HAMPSHIRE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Colorectal liver metastases; Selection for surgery

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLORECTAL CANCER; COLORECTAL LIVER METASTASIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; LIVER METASTASIS; LIVER RESECTION; MULTIDISCIPLINARY TEAM; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

COLORECTAL LIVER METASTASES; SELECTION FOR SURGERY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HEPATECTOMY; HUMANS; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATIENT CARE TEAM; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84886286043     PISSN: 14628910     EISSN: 14631318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/codi.12323     Document Type: Article

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