Postoperative ileus on a gynecologic oncology service - Do abdominal X-rays have a role?

Gynecologic Oncology

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 158-162

  Heinberg, Eric M ^a   Finan, Michael A ^a   Chambers, Richard B ^a   Bazzett, Lisa B ^a   Kline, Richard C ^a  

^a OCHSNER CLINIC FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; AGED; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DECOMPRESSION; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; ILEUS; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; INTRAVENOUS ADMINISTRATION; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICAL SERVICE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PARENTERAL NUTRITION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; REOPERATION; REVIEW; SUPPOSITORY; ARTICLE; FEMALE GENITAL TRACT TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY;

FEMALE; GENITAL NEOPLASMS, FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; HUMANS; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL;

EID: 0037486925     PISSN: 00908258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0090-8258(03)00247-6     Document Type: Article

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