Preoperative radiotherapy is associated with worse functional results after coloanal anastomosis for rectal cancer

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum

Volumn 52, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2004-2014

  Parc, Yann ^a   Zutshi, Massarat ^b   Zalinski, Stéphane ^a   Ruppert, Rienhard ^c   Fürs, Alois ^d   Fazio, Victor W ^b  

^a HÔPITAL SAINT ANTOINE   (France)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c Municipal Hospitals of Munich   (Germany)

^d Caritas St Josef Medical Centre   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bowel function; Coloanal anastomosis; Jpouch; Low rectal cancer; Preoperative radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

ANTIDIARRHEAL AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ANASTOMOTIC FISTULA; ANASTOMOTIC STRICTURE; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CHEMOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLOANAL ANASTOMOSIS; COLOPLASTY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG USE; FECAL INCONTINENCE SEVERITY INDEX; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HUMAN; ILEOANAL ANASTOMOSIS; INTESTINE FUNCTION; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MESORECTUM BREACH; MORBIDITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PELVIS SEPSIS; PERIOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE RADIOTHERAPY; PRESACRAL BLEEDING; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RADIATION HAZARD; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECTUM CANCER; SEPSIS; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SEXUAL HEALTH INVENTORY FOR MEN; SHORT FORM 36; SPLEEN INJURY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THERAPY EFFECT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETER INJURY; WOUND INFECTION; ADJUVANT THERAPY; ANAL CANAL; COLON; COLON POUCH; DEFECATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOTHERAPY; RECTUM TUMOR; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION;

AGED; ANAL CANAL; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; ANTIDIARRHEALS; COLON; COLONIC POUCHES; DEFECATION; FECAL INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RADIOTHERAPY; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RESEARCH DESIGN; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 85047685645     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: 15300358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/DCR.0b013e3181beb4d8     Document Type: Article

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