Surgery
Volume 147, Issue 3 , Pages 339-351 , March 2010

Definition and grading of anastomotic leakage following anterior resection of the rectum: A proposal by the International Study Group of Rectal Cancer

  • Nuh N. Rahbari, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of General, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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  • Jürgen Weitz, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of General, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
    • ,
  • Werner Hohenberger, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, University of Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany
    • ,
  • Richard J. Heald, MD

      Affiliations

    • Colorectal Research Unit, North Hampshire Hospital, Basingstoke, United Kingdom
    • ,
  • Brendan Moran, MD

      Affiliations

    • Colorectal Research Unit, North Hampshire Hospital, Basingstoke, United Kingdom
    • ,
  • Alexis Ulrich, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of General, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
    • ,
  • Torbjörn Holm, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
    • ,
  • W. Douglas Wong, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
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  • Emmanuel Tiret, MD

      Affiliations

    • Service de Chirurgie générale et digestive, Hôpital Saint-Antoine, Paris, France
    • ,
  • Yoshihiro Moriya, MD

      Affiliations

    • Colorectal Surgery Division, National Cancer Center Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
    • ,
  • Søren Laurberg, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark
    • ,
  • Marcel den Dulk, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
    • ,
  • Cornelis van de Velde, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
    • ,
  • Markus W. Büchler, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of General, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Markus W. Büchler, MD, Department of General, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, University of Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 110, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany.

,Accepted 5 October 2009.

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 Members of the International Study Group of Rectal Cancer (ISREC): Markus W. Büchler (Heidelberg, Germany), Marcel den Dulk (Leiden, The Netherlands), Richard J. Heald (Basingstoke, United Kingdom), Werner Hohenberger (Erlangen, Germany), Torbjörn Holm (Stockholm, Sweden), Søren Laurberg (Aarhus, Denmark), Yoshihiro Moriya (Tokyo, Japan), Emmanuel Tiret (Paris, France), Nuh N. Rahbari (Heidelberg, Germany), Cornelis van de Velde (Leiden, The Netherlands), Jürgen Weitz (Heidelberg, Germany), and W. Douglas Wong (New York, NY).

 N.N.R. and J.W. contributed equally to this work.

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