Laparoscopic rectal cancer resection: Inferior to open or not?

Colorectal Disease

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 233-

  Tou, Sam ^a   Bergamaschi, Roberto ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CIRCUMFERENTIAL RESECTION MARGIN; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LAPAROTOMY; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); OVERALL SURVIVAL; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RECTUM CANCER; RECURRENCE RISK; SURGEON; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TOTAL MESORECTAL EXCISION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ADENOCARCINOMA; ADVERSE EFFECTS; COLON RESECTION; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; PROCEDURES; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ADENOCARCINOMA; COLECTOMY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SURGICAL PROCEDURES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; RECTAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84962822402     PISSN: 14628910     EISSN: 14631318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/codi.13270     Document Type: Editorial

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