Pelvic drainage and other risk factors for leakage after elective anterior resection in rectal cancer patients: A prospective study of 978 patients

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 241, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 9-13

  Yeh, Chien Yuh ^a   Changchien, Chung Rong ^a   Wang, Jeng Yi ^a   Chen, Jinn Shiun ^a   Chen, Hong Hwa ^a   Chiang, Jy Ming ^a   Tang, Reiping ^a  

^a CHANG GUNG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LAVAGE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; PELVIC DRAINAGE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECTUM ANTERIOR RESECTION; RECTUM CANCER; RISK FACTOR; SUCTION DRAINAGE; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; SURGICAL MORTALITY;

ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; COLECTOMY; DRAINAGE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PELVIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL WOUND DEHISCENCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 11144298069     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.sla.0000150067.99651.6a     Document Type: Article

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