Surgical treatment of toxic megacolon;Toxisches Megakolon: Operationszeitpunkt nicht verpassen!

Zentralblatt fur Chirurgie

Volumn 123, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1365-1369

  Aeberhard, P ^a,b  

^a CANTONAL HOSPITAL AARAU   (Switzerland)

^b NONE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Colectomy; Crohn's colitis; Decompression; Fulminant colitis; Ileostomy; Indication for surgery; Infectious colitis; Proctocolectomy; Pseudomembranous colitis; Radiological diagnosis; Toxic megacolon; Ulcerative colitis

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN; STEROID;

ARTICLE; COLON CROHN DISEASE; COLON DILATATION; COLON PERFORATION; COLON RESECTION; FISTULA; HUMAN; ILEOSTOMY; INFLAMMATION; INTENSIVE CARE; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS COLITIS; RECTUM RESECTION; SIGMOID; SURGEON; TEAMWORK; TOXIC MEGACOLON; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULCERATIVE COLITIS; WOUND CLOSURE;

COLECTOMY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; ILEOSTOMY; INTESTINAL PERFORATION; MEGACOLON, TOXIC; PATIENT CARE TEAM; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0032410817     PISSN: 0044409X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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