A New Bowel Preparation for Elective Colon and Rectal Surgery: A Prospective, Randomized Clinical Trial

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 123, Issue 7, 1988, Pages 895-900

  Wolff, Bruce G ^a   Beart, Robert W ^a   Dozois, Roger R ^a   Pemberton, John H ^a   Zinsmeister, Alan R ^a   Ready, Roger L ^a   Farnell, Michael B ^a   Washington, John A ^a,b   Heppell, Jacques ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BICARBONATE; ENEMA; ERYTHROMYCIN; GOLYTELY; MACROGOL; METRONIDAZOLE; NEOMYCIN; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; SODIUM SULFATE;

COLON SURGERY; DRUG EFFICACY; HUMAN; INTESTINE PREPARATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METHODOLOGY; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; RECTUM SURGERY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CATHARTICS; CLINICAL TRIALS; COLON; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIET; ENEMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFECTION; INFECTION CONTROL; IRRIGATION; MALE; METRONIDAZOLE; MIDDLE AGE; NEOMYCIN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREMEDICATION; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RECTUM;

EID: 0023711138     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: 15383644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.1988.01400310109019     Document Type: Article

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