A ten-year study of penetrating injuries of the colon

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum

Volumn 47, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 2169-2177

  Adesanya, Adedoyin A ^a,b   Ekanem, Ekanem E ^a  

^a LAGOS UNIVERSITY TEACHING HOSPITAL   (Nigeria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAGOS   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Colon injury; Colostomy; Gunshot wounds; Morbidity; Mortality; Repair

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL INJURY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; COLON INJURY; COLOSTOMY; CONTAMINATION; ENTEROCUTANEOUS FISTULA; FEMALE; GUNSHOT INJURY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; KNIFE CUT; LAPAROTOMY; LIVER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MESENTERY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OPERATION DURATION; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PENETRATING TRAUMA; PERITONEAL CAVITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; SEPTICEMIA; SHOCK; SMALL INTESTINE; STAB WOUND; STOMACH; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WOUND INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD; COLON; COLOSTOMY; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; INTESTINAL FISTULA; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; NIGERIA; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SEPSIS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT; WOUNDS, STAB;

EID: 13144254231     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10350-004-0726-5     Document Type: Article

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