Surgical approaches to low anovaginal fistula in Crohn's disease

American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 173, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 95-98

  Hull, Tracy L ^a   Fazio, Victor W ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANUS FISTULA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CROHN DISEASE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; ILEOSTOMY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCTOCOLECTOMY; RECTUM SURGERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VAGINA DISEASE;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; COLECTOMY; CROHN DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; ILEOSTOMY; IRRIGATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RECTOVAGINAL FISTULA; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 0030965488     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9610(96)00420-5     Document Type: Article

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