Early detection of anastomotic leaks after colorectal surgery by measuring endotoxin in the drainage fluid

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 1523-1529

  Junger, W ^a   Junger, W G ^b   Miller, K ^a   Bahrami, S ^c   Redl, H ^c   Schlag, G ^c   Moritz, E ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UCSD MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c LUDWIG BOLTZMANN INSTITUTE FOR LUNG VASCULAR RESEARCH   (Austria)

Author keywords

Anastomotic leak; Colorectal surgery; Endotoxin; Peritonitis

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; ENDOTOXIN; UREA;

ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLORECTAL ANASTOMOSIS; COLORECTAL SURGERY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MEASUREMENT; PERITONITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; UREA BLOOD LEVEL; WOUND DRAINAGE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; ASCITIC FLUID; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; DIVERTICULITIS, COLONIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; SIGMOID DISEASES; SURGICAL STAPLING; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0030473311     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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