Systematic review of surgical options for idiopathic megarectum and megacolon

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 241, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 562-574

  Gladman, Marc A ^a   Scott, S Mark ^a   Lunniss, Peter J ^a   Williams, Norman S ^a,b  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL LONDON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLON RESECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOLLOW UP; HIRSCHSPRUNG DISEASE; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; MEGARECTUM; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PELVIS FLOOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCTOCOLECTOMY; PULL THROUGH OPERATION; RECTUM ANTERIOR RESECTION; RECTUM DISEASE; RECTUM RESECTION; RECURRENT DISEASE; REVIEW; SPHINCTEROTOMY; STOMA; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLINICAL TRIALS; COLECTOMY; COLORECTAL SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MEGACOLON; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROCTOCOLECTOMY, RESTORATIVE; RECTAL DISEASES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX DISTRIBUTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 15444375106     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.sla.0000157140.69695.d3     Document Type: Review

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