Risk factors for anastomotic leakage after left-sided colorectal resection with rectal anastomosis

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 653-660

  Mäkelä, Jyrki T ^a   Kiviniemi, Heikki ^b   Laitinen, Seppo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Anastomotic leak; Case control study; Resection; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

BILIRUBIN; CREATININE; HEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLON RESECTION; COLORECTAL CANCER; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOALBUMINEMIA; INTESTINE PREPARATION; MALE; MALNUTRITION; OBESITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RECTUM ANASTOMOSIS; RECTUM RESECTION; RISK FACTOR; SIGMOID; SMOKING; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

AGED; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; COLECTOMY; COLONIC DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECTUM; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 0038291682     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10350-004-6627-9     Document Type: Article

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