Surgery along the embryological planes for colon cancer: a systematic review of complete mesocolic excision

International Journal of Colorectal Disease

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 1577-1594

  Gouvas, Nikolaos ^a   Agalianos, Christos ^b   Papaparaskeva, Kleio ^c   Perrakis, Aristotelis ^d   Hohenberger, Werner ^d   Xynos, Evaghelos ^e  

^a Metropolitan Hospital   (Greece)

^b Naval and Veterans Hospital   (Greece)

^c Konstantopouleio Hospital of Athens   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

^e Creta Interclinic Hospital   (Greece)

Author keywords

Central vascular ligation; Colon cancer; Complete mesocolic excision; Meta analysis; Systematic review

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; COLON CANCER; COLON RESECTION; COLON SURGERY; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; COMPLETE MESOCOLIC EXCISION; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; META ANALYSIS; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY RATE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AGED; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; EMBRYOLOGY; FEMALE; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MESOCOLON; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; COLECTOMY; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MESOCOLON; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84979994359     PISSN: 01791958     EISSN: 14321262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00384-016-2626-2     Document Type: Review

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