The role of presacral drainage in the management of penetrating rectal injuries

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 656-661

  Gonzalez, Richard P ^a   Falimirski, Mark E ^b   Holevar, Michele R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ABDOMINAL DRAINAGE; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLOSTOMY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PENETRATING TRAUMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECTUM FISTULA; RECTUM INJURY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031753301     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005373-199810000-00002     Document Type: Article

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