Current management of colonic volvulus. Results of a treatment protocol

Revista Espanola de Enfermedades Digestivas

Volumn 90, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 867-869

  Meroño Carbajosa, Emilio Alejandro ^a,b   Menarguez Pina F J ^a   Morales Calderon M ^a   Martin Avila V ^a   Medrano Heredia, J ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE SAN JUAN   (Spain)

^b MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Colonic volvulus; Endoscopic devolvulation; Treatment of sigmoid colon volvulus

Indexed keywords

ENEMA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COLON DISEASE; COLONOSCOPY; DECISION TREE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLONIC DISEASES; COLONOSCOPY; DECISION TREES; ENEMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0032234229     PISSN: 11300108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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