Immediate postlaparotomy small bowel obstruction: A 16-year retrospective analysis

American Surgeon

Volumn 68, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 780-782

  Fraser, Shannon A ^a   Shrier, Ian ^a   Miller, George ^a   Gordon, Philip H ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLORECTAL SURGERY; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HUMAN; INTESTINE FUNCTION; LAPAROTOMY; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; REOPERATION; RISK FACTOR; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; AGED; COMPARATIVE STUDY; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; MIDDLE AGED; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SMALL INTESTINE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; INTESTINE, SMALL; LAPAROTOMY; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036726793     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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