Relevance of abdominal gas analysis and transit study after colorectal cancer surgery

Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 387-391

  Seike, Kazuhiro ^a,b   Koda, K ^a   Oda, K ^a   Kondo, E ^a   Ishizuka, M ^a   Miyazaki, M ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Abdominal radiography; Gas volume score; Radiopaque markers

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLON MOTILITY; COLORECTAL CANCER; COLORECTAL SURGERY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GAS ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MALE; METEORISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; GASES; HUMANS; INTESTINAL DISEASES; INTESTINES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; SIGMOID NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0038485889     PISSN: 00365521     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365520310000898     Document Type: Article

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