title: Factors influencing survival with complete obstruction and free perforation of colorectal cancers.
abstract: A review of 26 years' experience in the management of patients with obstruction and perforation of the colon due to carcinoma at Hôpital Notre-Dame, Montréal, is reported. We try, in the present paper to identify the factors responsible for the very poor prognosis in complete obstruction and free perforation of colorectal cancers. As we are comparing these complicated cancers with a larger group of uncomplicated cancers, our results are analyzed by the chi-square test.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003108:Colonic Diseases / Q000209:etiology* / Q000401:mortality; D003110:Colonic Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000401:mortality; D003125:Colostomy / Q000401:mortality; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007415:Intestinal Obstruction / Q000209:etiology* / Q000401:mortality; D007416:Intestinal Perforation / Q000209:etiology* / Q000401:mortality; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012004:Rectal Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000401:mortality; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D013997:Time Factors