Surgery for the resolution of symptoms in malignant bowel obstruction in advanced gynaecological and gastrointestinal cancer

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Volumn 2016, Issue 3, 2016, Pages

  Cousins, Sarah E ^a   Tempest, Emma ^b   Feuer, David J ^a  

^a BARTS HEALTH NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b WHIPPS CROSS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED CANCER; ADVERSE OUTCOME; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONSTIPATION; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL TRACT CANCER; GASTROINTESTINAL PAIN; HUMAN; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; INTESTINE RESECTION; MORBIDITY; NAUSEA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THERAPY EFFECT; VOMITING; COMPLICATION; FEMALE GENITAL TRACT TUMOR; GASTROINTESTINAL TUMOR; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; MALE; MORTALITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; GENITAL NEOPLASMS, FEMALE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84961904675     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1469493X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD002764.pub2     Document Type: Review

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