Management of Benign Rectal Strictures: A Review of Present Therapeutic Procedures

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum

Volumn 46, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1451-1460

  Garcea, G ^a,c   Sutton, C D ^a   Lloyd, T D ^a   Jameson, J ^b   Scott, A ^b   Kelly, M J ^a  

^a LEICESTER GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b GLENFIELD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c LEICESTER ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Benign; Management; Rectum; Stricture; Therapy

Indexed keywords

BALLOON DILATATION; CAUTERIZATION; ENTEROSTOMY; HUMAN; INCISION; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LAPAROTOMY; MEDLINE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RECTUM DISEASE; RECTUM STENOSIS; REVIEW; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; STENT; SURGICAL STAPLING; TRANSNASAL STRICTUREPLASTY;

ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; BALLOON DILATATION; CLINICAL TRIALS; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; CRITICAL PATHWAYS; ELECTROCOAGULATION; HUMANS; RECTAL DISEASES; RECTUM; STENTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0242426461     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10350-004-6792-x     Document Type: Review

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