Small bowel obstruction following extended right hemicolectomy and subtotal colectomy: Assessing the benefit of prophylactic tube splinting

Digestive Surgery

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 388-391

  Meissner, K ^a,b  

^a District Hospital   (Austria)

^b Allg Öff Krankenhaus   (Austria)

Author keywords

Colectomy, subtotal; Hemicolectomy, extended right; Small bowel obstruction, postoperative; Tube splinting, intestinal

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BALLOON; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLON RESECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMICOLECTOMY; HUMAN; MALE; MORTALITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROPHYLAXIS; RECURRENT DISEASE; REOPERATION; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; SPLINTING; TUBE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COLECTOMY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; INTESTINE, SMALL; INTUBATION, GASTROINTESTINAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; STENTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0035204428     PISSN: 02534886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000050179     Document Type: Article

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