The superior rectal artery and its branching pattern with regard to its clinical influence on ligation techniques for internal hemorrhoids

American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 187, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 102-108

  Aigner, Felix ^a,b   Bodner, Gerd ^b   Conrad, Friedrich ^b   Mbaka, Godwin ^d   Kreczy, Alfons ^c   Fritsch, Helga ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^d OLABISI ONABANJO UNIVERSITY   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Corpus cavernosum recti; Hemorrhoidal artery ligation; Superior rectal artery

Indexed keywords

EPOXY RESIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY; ARTERY LIGATION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEMORRHOID; HEMORRHOIDECTOMY; HISTOCHEMISTRY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LEVATOR ANI MUSCLE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCTOLOGY; RECTUM MUCOSA; SUBMUCOSA; SUPERIOR RECTAL ARTERY; SURGICAL ANATOMY;

EID: 0346729754     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2002.11.003     Document Type: Article

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