Results after colectomy for colonic inertia: A sixteen-year experience

American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 182, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 639-644

  Webster, Clinton ^a   Dayton, Merril ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Colonic dysmotility; Colonic inertia; Constipation; Sitz marker; Surgical constipation

Indexed keywords

DIATRIZOATE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANORECTAL PRESSURE; COLON DISEASE; COLON INERTIA; COLON MOTILITY; COLON RESECTION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FECES; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; ILEUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYENTERIC PLEXUS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; COLECTOMY; COLONIC DISEASES; CONSTIPATION; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; HUMANS; MALE; MANOMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0035708297     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9610(01)00820-0     Document Type: Article

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