Colorectal war injuries

Military Medicine

Volumn 165, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 186-188

  Uravić, Miljenko ^a   Milotić, Franko ^a   Depolo, Arsen ^a   Rahelić, Velimir ^a   Petrošić, Nenad ^a  

^a KBC RIJEKA   (Croatia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; GENTAMICIN; METRONIDAZOLE; PENICILLIN G;

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ABDOMINAL BLEEDING; ABDOMINAL DRAINAGE; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; BATTLE INJURY; COLON INJURY; COLOSTOMY; CROATIA; ENTEROCUTANEOUS FISTULA; HEMICOLECTOMY; HUMAN; ILEUS; INTESTINE INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; RECTUM INJURY; SEPSIS; URINARY TRACT FISTULA; URINE INCONTINENCE; WAR;

EID: 0034023898     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/milmed/165.3.186     Document Type: Article

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