
Low Anterior Resection Score (LARS) | Rectal Carcinoma
Purpose: | To evaluate a patient who has had a low anterior resection using the low anterior resection score of Emmertsen and Laurberg. |
Specialty: | Gastroenterology Orthopedic Surgery General Surgery |
Objective: | complication detection |
ICD-10: | K91.8 |
Description: | Emmertsen and Laurberg developed the Low Anterior Resection Score (LARS) to evaluate patients who have undergone a low anterior resection for rectal cancer. The authors are from Aarhus University Hospital in Denmark. |
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