Corrosive injuries of the oesophagus and stomach: Experience in management at a regional paediatric centre

Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 119-123

  Stiff, G ^a,b   Alwafi, A ^a   Rees, B I ^a   Lari, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF WALES   (United Kingdom)

^b East Glamorgan Hospital   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Children; Corrosive ingestion

Indexed keywords

ACID; ALKALI;

ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLON INTERPOSITION; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; ESOPHAGUS INJURY; ESOPHAGUS STRICTURE; FEMALE; GASTROSTOMY; HUMAN; INGESTION; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; PARTIAL GASTRECTOMY; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; PERITONITIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PYLOROPLASTY; STOMACH INJURY;

ACIDS; ALKALIES; BURNS, CHEMICAL; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ESOPHAGEAL STENOSIS; HOSPITAL UNITS; HUMANS; INFANT; STOMACH;

EID: 0029864107     PISSN: 00358843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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