Home total parenteral nutrition: An alternative to early surgery for complicated inflammatory bowel disease

Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 562-566

  Evans, Justin P ^a   Steinhart, A H ^a   Cohen, Z ^a   McLeod, Robin S ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

IBD; Surgery; TPN

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLOSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROHN DISEASE; DEHYDRATION; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM FISTULA; ENTERITIS; ENTEROCUTANEOUS FISTULA; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; QUALITY OF LIFE; SEPSIS; TELEPHONE; TOTAL PARENTERAL NUTRITION; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL; ULCERATIVE COLITIS;

ADULT; COLITIS, ULCERATIVE; CROHN DISEASE; CUTANEOUS FISTULA; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL FISTULA; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARENTERAL NUTRITION, TOTAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0038638294     PISSN: 1091255X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1091-255X(02)00132-4     Document Type: Article

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