Bowel dysfunction after rectal cancer treatment: A study comparing the specialist's versus patient's perspective

BMJ Open

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Chen, Tina Yen Ting ^a   Emmertsen, Katrine Jøssing ^a   Laurberg, Søren ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BOWEL DYSFUNCTION; CANCER SURGERY; DEFECATION URGENCY; FECES INCONTINENCE; FLATULENCE; HUMAN; INTESTINE FUNCTION; LARGE INTESTINE DISEASE; LIQUID FECES; LOW ANTERIOR RESECTION SYNDROME SCORE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RADIATION ONCOLOGIST; RECTUM CANCER; RECTUM SURGERY; SCORING SYSTEM; SURGEON; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COLORECTAL SURGERY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; INTESTINAL DISEASES; ONCOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; SYNDROME;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COLORECTAL SURGERY; HUMANS; INTESTINAL DISEASES; MEDICAL ONCOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; SYNDROME;

EID: 84892863513     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20446055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2013-003374     Document Type: Article

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