Gas volume analysis and postoperative bowel functional disorders in patients who received anterior resection for rectal cancer

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 661-666

  Seike, Kazuhiro ^a   Koda, Keiji ^b   Takiguchi, Nobuhiro ^b   Oda, Kenji ^b   Miyazaki, Masaru ^b  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Abdominal radiograph; Gas volume score; Low anterior resection; Postoperative functional bowel disorders

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSTIPATION; FEMALE; GAS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RECTUM ANTERIOR RESECTION; RECTUM CANCER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLECTOMY; FEMALE; GASES; HUMANS; INTESTINAL DISEASES; INTESTINES; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0038291660     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10350-004-6628-8     Document Type: Article

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