Anastomotic leakage and presacral abscess formation after locally advanced rectal cancer surgery: Incidence, risk factors and treatment

European Journal of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 40, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1502-1509

  Vermeer, T A ^a   Orsini, R G ^a   Daams, F ^a   Nieuwenhuijzen, G A P ^a   Rutten, H J T ^a  

^a CATHARINA HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Anastomotic leakage; Locally advanced rectal cancer; Presacral abscess; Treatment

Indexed keywords

CAPECITABINE;

ABSCESS; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER SURGERY; COLORECTAL CANCER; EVISCERATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OPERATIVE BLOOD LOSS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRESACRAL ABSCESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM ABDOMINOPERINEAL RESECTION; RECTUM ANTERIOR RESECTION; RECTUM CANCER; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ADJUVANT THERAPY; ANASTOMOSIS; ANASTOMOTIC LEAK; BACK; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; INCIDENCE; PATHOLOGY; PELVIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RECTUM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TIME;

ABSCESS; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; ANASTOMOTIC LEAK; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SURGICAL PROCEDURES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; PELVIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RECTUM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SACROCOCCYGEAL REGION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84922481586     PISSN: 07487983     EISSN: 15322157     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejso.2014.03.019     Document Type: Article

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