Strategy for the surgical management of patients with idiopathic megarectum and megacolon

British Journal of Surgery

Volumn 88, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 1392-1396

  Silleabhin, C B ^a   Anderson, J H ^a   McKee, R F ^a   Finlay, I G ^a  

^a GLASGOW ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLON ANASTOMOSIS; COLON BIOPSY; COLON MOTILITY; COLON RESECTION; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFECOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HIRSCHSPRUNG DISEASE; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; ILEOANAL ANASTOMOSIS; INTESTINE TRANSIT TIME; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM BIOPSY; RECTUM DISEASE; STOMA; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; COLECTOMY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; HUMANS; ILEOSTOMY; MALE; MEGACOLON; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PROCTOCOLECTOMY, RESTORATIVE; RECTAL DISEASES;

EID: 0034797803     PISSN: 00071323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.0007-1323.2001.01871.x     Document Type: Article

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