Standardization or centralization: Can one have one without the other? circumferential resection margins and rectal cancer

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 262, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 899-900

  Galandiuk, Susan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADJUVANT CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER CENTER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CENTRALIZATION; CIRCUMFERENTIAL RESECTION MARGIN; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; DATA BASE; EDITORIAL; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FECES INCONTINENCE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPH VESSEL METASTASIS; MEDICAID; MEDICARE; MESENTERY LYMPH NODE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERINEURAL INVASION; PREOPERATIVE RADIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM CANCER; RECTUM RESECTION; SKILL; STANDARDIZATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURGICAL TRAINING; ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ADENOCARCINOMA; FEMALE; MALE; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RECTUM; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADENOCARCINOMA; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SURGICAL PROCEDURES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RECTUM;

EID: 84948679572     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0000000000001520     Document Type: Editorial

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