Retained foreign bodies following intra-abdominal surgery

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 46, Issue 26, 1999, Pages 808-812

  Gonzalez Ojeda, A ^a,b   Rodriguez Alcantar, D A ^a   Arenas Marquez, H ^a   Sanchez Perez Verdia, E ^a   Chavez Perez, R ^a   Alvarez Quintero, R ^a   Perea Sanchez, A ^a  

^a Clin de Cirugia e Hiper A   (Mexico)

^b NONE   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Abdominal surgery; Diagnosis; Prevention; Retained foreign bodies

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL MASS; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLON FISTULA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOREIGN BODY; GRANULOMA; HUMAN; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PERITONEAL CAVITY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; SEPSIS; VAGINA DISCHARGE;

ABDOMEN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; FOREIGN BODIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032929679     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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