Seprafilm may ease colostomy reversal

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 139, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1380-1382

  Saribeyoǧlu, Kaya ^a   Pekmezci, Salih ^a   Ulualp, Kenan ^a,b  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOXYMETHYLCELLULOSE; HYALURONIC ACID;

ADHESION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; COLON DISEASE; COLON RESECTION; COLOSTOMY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; FILM; LAPAROTOMY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REOPERATION; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SKIN INCISION;

ADHESIONS; ANIMALS; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; CARBOXYMETHYLCELLULOSE; COLOSTOMY; FEMALE; HYALURONIC ACID; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; PELVIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REOPERATION;

EID: 10044229352     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.139.12.1380     Document Type: Article

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