Natural history of patients with adhesive small bowel obstruction

British Journal of Surgery

Volumn 87, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1240-1247

  Miller, G ^a   Boman, J ^a   Shrier, I ^a   Gordon, P H ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COLORECTAL SURGERY; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY; HERNIORRHAPHY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LAPAROTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENCE RISK; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKIN INCISION; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION;

ADHESIONS; HUMANS; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; INTESTINE, SMALL; LENGTH OF STAY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0033823820     PISSN: 00071323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2168.2000.01530.x     Document Type: Article

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