Emergency First Presentation of Colorectal Cancer Predicts Significantly Poorer Outcomes

Alan Bass, Gary; Fleming, Cathy; Conneely, John; Martin, Zenia; Mealy, K.

doi:10.1007/dcr.0b013e3181a1d8c9

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Emergency First Presentation of Colorectal Cancer Predicts Significantly Poorer Outcomes

Published in Diseases of the Colon & Rectum • Apr 1, 2009

Authors:

Gary Alan Bass

Cathy Fleming

John Conneely

Abstract

PURPOSE: Colorectal cancer commonly presents first as an emergency and is likely to be complicated by bowel obstruction/perforation requiring more difficult procedures, with poorer outcomes. Analysis of all of the procedures performed on patients diagnosed in Wexford General Hospital, Ireland, durin...

Subject

Medicine

Surgical oncology

Colorectal surgery

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