Fistulas complicating diverticulitis

International Journal of Colorectal Disease

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 57-60

  Vasilevsky, C A ^a   Belliveau, P ^a   Trudel, J L ^a   Stein, B L ^a   Gordon, P H ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Diverticular disease; Fistula; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATELECTASIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLON ANASTOMOSIS; COLON FISTULA; COLON RESECTION; FEMALE; FEVER; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; ILEUS; INTESTINE DIVERTICULOSIS; KIDNEY FAILURE; LUNG EDEMA; MALE; PERONEUS NERVE PARALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS COLITIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; DIVERTICULITIS, COLONIC; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GENITAL DISEASES, FEMALE; GENITAL DISEASES, MALE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL FISTULA; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN DISEASES; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0031867479     PISSN: 01791958     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003840050135     Document Type: Article

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