Treatment of gunshot wounds to the colon: Experience in a rural hospital during the civil war in Somalia

Annali Italiani di Chirurgia

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 461-464

  Angelici, Alberto M ^a   Montesano, G ^a   Nasti, A G ^a   Palumbo, P ^a   Vietri, F ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Colon injury; Colostomy; Primary repair

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS; ARTICLE; COLON; COLON RESECTION; COLOSTOMY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; GUNSHOT INJURY; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; INJURY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SOMALIA; WAR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; COLECTOMY; COLON; COLOSTOMY; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, RURAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SOMALIA; WAR; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT;

EID: 15544369204     PISSN: 0003469X     EISSN: 2239253X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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