Collagen promotes perianastomotic tumour
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Diana Reinbach; John R. McGregor; Steven W. Dahill; James G. Docherty; Patrick J
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Article
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1995
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Local application of growth factors promote wound healing and may find clinical application for use in high-risk intestinal anastomoses such as that following anterior resection. Since viable tumour cells are present in the bowel lumen and circulation after curative colorectal cancer surgery, it is