Effect of Intravenous Erythromycin on Postoperative Ileus

The American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 1993, Pages 208-211

  Bonacini, Maurizio ^a   Quiason, Stella ^a   Reynolds, Michael ^a   Gaddis, Monica ^a   Pemberton, Beaty ^a   Smith, Owen ^a  

^a TRUMAN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERYTHROMYCIN; PLACEBO;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFECATION; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; FLATULENCE; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAL; PARALYTIC ILEUS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH;

ABDOMEN; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ERYTHROMYCIN; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; HUMAN; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; INTESTINAL PSEUDO-OBSTRUCTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0027448388     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: 15720241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1572-0241.1993.tb07506.x     Document Type: Article

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