Preservation of the inferior mesenteric artery in colorectal resection for complicated diverticular disease

American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 182, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 162-167

  Tocchi, Adriano ^a   Mazzoni, Gianluca ^a   Fornasari, Vittorio ^a   Miccini, Michelangelo ^a   Daddi, Giuliano ^b   Tagliacozzo, Sandro ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Colorectal anastomosis; Complicated diverticular disease; Preservation of inferior mesenteric artery

Indexed keywords

CEFOTAXIME; METRONIDAZOLE;

ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS DEHISCENCE; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; COLON DIVERTICULOSIS; COLON STENOSIS; COLORECTAL ANASTOMOSIS; COLORECTAL SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFERIOR MESENTERIC ARTERY; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; OPERATION DURATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRESERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RECTUM; RECURRENT DISEASE; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL STAPLING; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VASCULARIZATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLECTOMY; COLON; DIVERTICULUM, COLON; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MESENTERIC ARTERY, INFERIOR; MIDDLE AGED; RECTUM; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0034802460     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9610(01)00681-X     Document Type: Article

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