Clinical outcome and bowel function following total abdominal colectomy and ileorectal anastomosis in the oriental population

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 215-218

  Eu, K W ^a   Lim, S L ^a   Seow Choen, F ^a   Leong, A F P K ^a   Ho, Y H ^a  

^a SINGAPORE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Ileorectal anastomosis; Postoperative function; Total colectomy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; ILEORECTAL ANASTOMOSIS; INTESTINE FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; SINGAPORE; TOTAL COLON RESECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADENOMATOUS POLYPOSIS COLI; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; ANTIDIARRHEALS; COLECTOMY; COLON; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; DEFECATION; DIVERTICULUM, COLON; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; ILEUM; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERISTALSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECTUM; REOPERATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031939642     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02238251     Document Type: Article

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