Time for a renewed strategy in the management of rectal cancer: Critical reflection on the surgical management of rectal cancer over 100 years

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 399-402

  Aly, Emad H ^a  

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Indexed keywords

ADJUVANT CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER SURGERY; COLORECTAL SURGERY; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NOTE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RECTUM CANCER; RECTUM PRESERVING SURGERY; RECTUM SURGERY; RECURRENCE RISK; ROBOTICS; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL INJURY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; ARTICLE; HISTORY; LAPAROSCOPY; RECTUM TUMOR;

COLORECTAL SURGERY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; RECTAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84897572290     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: 15300358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/DCR.0000000000000043     Document Type: Note

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