The Effect of Diabetes on the Perioperative Outcomes of Colorectal Cancer Surgery Patients.

There are approximately 1.3 million patients in Australia with diabetes. Conflicting reports exist in the literature as to the effect of diabetes on the outcomes of colorectal cancer patients. We hypothesized that patients with diabetes would have poorer perioperative outcomes, and that diabetes was...

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Main Authors: Raymond Yap, Simon Wilkins, Margaret Staples, Karen Oliva, Paul J McMurrick
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5132159?pdf=render