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Rectal Cancer Management: Europe Is Ahead

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Rectal Cancer Treatment

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  1. Pelican Cancer Foundation, North Hampshire Hospital, Basingstoke, UK

    R. J. Heald & I. Daniels

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  1. Abteilung für Allgemeine, Viszerale, Unfallchirurgie und Poliklinik, Chirurgische Universitätsklinik Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 110, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany

    Markus W. Büchler  & Jürgen Weitz  & 

  2. Chirurgie, Krankenhaus Gerresheim, Kliniken der Landeshauptstadt, Gräulinger Straße 120, 40625, Düsseldorf, Germany

    Bernward Ulrich

  3. The Pelican Cancer Foundation, North Hampshire Hospital, Basingstoke, Hampshire, RG24 9NA, UK

    Richard John Heald (OBE, Surgical Director) (OBE, Surgical Director)

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Heald, R.J., Daniels, I. (2005). Rectal Cancer Management: Europe Is Ahead. In: Büchler, M.W., Weitz, J., Ulrich, B., Heald, R.J. (eds) Rectal Cancer Treatment. Recent Results in Cancer Research, vol 165. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-27449-9_9

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