Subtotal colectomy for colonic inertia

International Surgery

Volumn 85, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 309-312

  Fan, Chung Wei ^a   Wang, Jeng Yi ^a  

^a CHANG GUNG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Colectomy; Colonic inertia; Constipation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS; ARTICLE; COLON; COLON RESECTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSTIPATION; DEFECOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; ILEUM; INNERVATION; IRRITABLE COLON; MALE; MANOMETRY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PROBABILITY; RECTUM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; COLECTOMY; COLON; COLONIC DISEASES, FUNCTIONAL; CONSTIPATION; DEFECOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; ILEUM; MALE; MANOMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PROBABILITY; RECTUM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0034305064     PISSN: 00208868     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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