Gut disruption impairs rehabilitation in patients curatively operated for pancreaticoduodenal cancer - a qualitative study

Gut disruption impairs rehabilitation in patients curatively operated for pancreaticoduodenal cancer - a qualitative study

Abstract Background How patients recover and resume everyday life after curative hepato-pancreato-biliary (HPB) surgery with intestinal reconstruction has, to our knowledge, not previously been investigated. We wanted to explore the patient experience in order to develop our capability to support th...

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Main Authors: Kristine Elberg Dengsø, Tine Tjørnhøj-Thomsen, Susanne Oksbjerg Dalton, Bo Marcel Christensen, Jens Hillingsø, Thordis Thomsen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-10-01
Series:BMC Cancer
Subjects:
Cancer
Follow-up
Rehabilitation
HPB
Surgery
Symptoms
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12885-018-4933-1

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