Why the study?
What is the frequency of operative complications in the surgical treatment of carcinoma of the large bowel?
Population
Patients undergoing operations for colonic cancer (n=712 operations)
Design
Case_series
Authors
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Historical series suggest infrequent complications in colonic cancer surgery; leaves open relevance to modern outcomes and requires prospective validation.
What is the frequency of operative complications in the surgical treatment of carcinoma of the large bowel?
Operative complications in the surgical treatment of colonic cancer were found to be infrequent in this historical series.
W. Wayne Babcock (1945) studied this question.
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