Revisiting the biofragmentable anastomotic ring: Is it safe in colonic surgery?

Canadian Journal of Surgery

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 92-98

  Ghitulescu, Gabriela A ^b   Morin, Nancy ^b   Jetty, Prasad ^b   Belliveau, Paul ^a  

^a HOTEL DIEU HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STEROID;

ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ARTICLE; BIOFRAGMENTABLE ANASTOMOTIC RING; COLON ANASTOMOSIS; COLON SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIVERTICULOSIS; ELECTIVE SURGERY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; ENTERITIS; FLATULENCE; FLUID INTAKE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTESTINE ANASTOMOSIS; INTESTINE CANCER; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OPERATION DURATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; REOPERATION; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ADOLESCENT; ANASTOMOSIS; COLON DISEASE; COLON DIVERTICULOSIS; COLON TUMOR; FEMALE; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SURGICAL STAPLING; SUTURING METHOD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; COLONIC DISEASES; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; DIVERTICULUM, COLON; FEMALE; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REOPERATION; SURGICAL STAPLING; SUTURE TECHNIQUES;

EID: 0037392357     PISSN: 0008428X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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