Analysis of patient selection and external validity in the Swedish contribution to the COLOR trial.

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Published in Surg Endosc on December 05, 2008

Authors

Martin Janson1, Gunnar Edlund, Ulf Kressner, Elisabet Lindholm, Lars Påhlman, Stefan Skullman, Bo Anderberg, Eva Haglind

Author Affiliations

1: CLINTEC, Division of Surgery, Karolinska Institutet at Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge, K53, 141 86, Stockholm, Sweden. martin.janson@karolinska.se

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