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Title:

Does a rectal cancer of the upper third behave more like a colon or a rectal cancer?

Document type:
Journal Article; Article
Author(s):
Rosenberg, R; Maak, M; Schuster, T; Becker, K; Friess, H; Gertler, R
Abstract:
PURPOSE: This study aimed to evaluate whether cancers in the upper third of the rectum should be treated according to colon or rectal cancer guidelines. METHODS: We evaluated 499 patients with tumors located in the sigmoid colon (299 patients, 60%), the upper third of the rectum (95 patients, 19%), or the middle third of the rectum (105 patients, 21%), International Union against Cancer tumor stage II or III, no preoperative radiochemotherapy, and primary curative tumor resection between 1990 an...     »
Journal title abbreviation:
Dis Colon Rectum
Year:
2010
Journal volume:
53
Journal issue:
5
Pages contribution:
761-70
Language:
eng
Fulltext / DOI:
doi:10.1007/DCR.0b013e3181cdb25a
Pubmed ID:
http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20389210
Print-ISSN:
0012-3706
TUM Institution:
Chirurgische Klinik und Poliklinik; Institut für Allgemeine Pathologie und Pathologische Anatomie; Institut für Medizinische Statistik und Epidemiologie
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