A Distal Resection Margin of ≤1 mm and Rectal Cancer Recurrence After Sphincter-Preserving Surgery: The Role of a Positive Distal Margin in Rectal Cancer Surgery

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum

Volumn 60, Issue 11, 2017, Pages 1175-1183

  Zeng, Wei Gen ^a   Liu, Meng Jia ^b   Zhou, Zhi Xiang ^b   Wang, Zhen Jun ^a  

^a CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CANCER HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

Distal margin; Mortality; Rectal cancer; Recurrence

Indexed keywords

CAPECITABINE; FLUOROURACIL; FOLINIC ACID; OXALIPLATIN;

ADJUVANT CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ANUS SPHINCTER; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL OUTCOME; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH VESSEL METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEOADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PERINEURAL INVASION; RECTUM ANTERIOR RESECTION; RECTUM CARCINOMA; RECURRENCE RISK; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL MARGIN; VERY ELDERLY; ADENOCARCINOMA; DIAGNOSIS; ETIOLOGY; FOLLOW UP; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROGNOSIS; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RECTUM; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MARGINS OF EXCISION; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PROGNOSIS; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RECTUM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 85031671560     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: 15300358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/DCR.0000000000000900     Document Type: Article

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