Differences in circumferential resection margin involvement after abdominoperineal excision and low anterior resection no longer significant

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 259, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1150-1155

  Van Leersum, Nicoline ^a   Martijnse, Ingrid ^b   Den Dulk, Marcel ^a   Kolfschoten, Nikki ^a   Le Cessie, Saskia ^a   Van De Velde, Cornelius ^a   Tollenaar, Rob ^a   Wouters, Michel ^a   Rutten, Harm J ^c,d  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b CATHARINA HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^c ANTONI VAN LEEUWENHOEK HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^d MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Abdominoperineal excision; APE; APR; Circumferential resection margin; Dutch Surgical Colorectal Audit

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CHARLSON COMORBIDITY INDEX; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; CIRCUMFERENTIAL RESECTION MARGIN; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL PARAMETERS; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PRIMARY TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM ABDOMINOPERINEAL RESECTION; RECTUM ANTERIOR RESECTION; SURGICAL RISK;

ABDOMEN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLECTOMY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PERINEUM; PROPENSITY SCORE; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84900858231     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0000000000000225     Document Type: Article

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