Colorectal cancer emergencies

Journal of Gastrointestinal Cancer

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 132-142

  Barnett, Andy ^a   Cedar, Anna ^a   Siddiqui, Faisal ^b   Herzig, Daniel ^a   Fowlkes, Emilie ^a   Thomas, Charles R ^b  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer emergencies; Colorectal cancer

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE LOWER GASTROINTESTINAL BLEEDING; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER THERAPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONSULTATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY CARE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; INTESTINE PERFORATION; INTUSSUSCEPTION; MALIGNANT ASCITES; MALIGNANT BOWEL OBSTRUCTION; MALIGNANT INTUSSUSCEPTION; NEUTROPENIC ENTEROCOLITIS; ONCOLOGY; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ENTEROPATHY; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; REVIEW; TUMOR INVASION; UNITED STATES; COLORECTAL TUMOR; EMERGENCY;

COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; EMERGENCIES; HUMANS;

EID: 84887082775     PISSN: 19416628     EISSN: 19416636     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12029-012-9468-0     Document Type: Review

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