Surgery for ulcerative colitis in Greece: Clinicoepidemiological features and long-term outcome of 69 consecutive patients

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 45, Issue 22, 1998, Pages 961-968

  Triantafillidis, John K ^a,c   Pomonis, Efstathios ^a   Emmanouilidis, Anastasios ^b   Merikas, Emmanouel G ^a   Tsitsa, Chrisa ^c   Hanjiandreou, Evi ^c  

^a IASO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b ATHENS MEDICAL CENTER   (Greece)

^c Department of Health Economics ^*  (Greece)

Author keywords

Greece; Outcome; Surgical treatment; Ulcerative colitis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GREECE; HUMAN; ILEOANAL ANASTOMOSIS; ILEORECTAL ANASTOMOSIS; ILEOSTOMY; LARGE INTESTINE CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCTOCOLECTOMY; RECTOVAGINAL FISTULA; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURVIVAL; TOXIC MEGACOLON; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULCERATIVE COLITIS;

ADULT; COLITIS, ULCERATIVE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GREECE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0031690555     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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