Urgent surgery after emergency presentation for colorectal cancer has no impact on overall and disease-free survival: A propensity score analysis

BMC Cancer

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Weixler, Benjamin ^a   Warschkow, Rene ^b,c   Ramser, Michaela ^a   Droeser, Raoul ^a   von Holzen, Urs ^a,d   Oertli, Daniel ^a   Kettelhack, Christoph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b CANTONAL HOSPITAL ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^d Goshen Health System Center for Cancer Care   (United States)

Author keywords

Colorectal cancer; Disease free survival; Emergency surgery; Oncological outcome; Overal survival

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; COLON PERFORATION; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; ELECTIVE SURGERY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PROPENSITY SCORE; RECTUM PERFORATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL RISK; SURVIVAL TIME; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ADULT; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL;

ADULT; AGED; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SURGICAL PROCEDURES; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; PROGNOSIS; PROPENSITY SCORE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS;

EID: 84960438469     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12885-016-2239-8     Document Type: Article

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