Role of ganglion cells in sigmoid volvulus

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 88-91

  Furuya, Yoshitaka ^a   Yasuhara, Hiroshi ^a   Yanagie, Hironobu ^a   Naka, Shuji ^a   Takenoue, Tomohiro ^a   Shinkawa, Hiroki ^a   Niwa, Hirotaka ^a   Kikuchi, Tsuyoshi ^a   Nagao, Toshitaka ^a  

^a TEIKYO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEURON SPECIFIC ENOLASE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CELL COUNT; CELL FUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLON RESECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MYENTERIC PLEXUS; NERVE CELL; NERVE PLEXUS; RECTUM CANCER; RECURRENT DISEASE; SAMPLE; SIGMOID; SIGMOID VOLVULUS; SIGMOIDECTOMY; SURGICAL PATIENT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; GANGLIA; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTESTINAL VOLVULUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYENTERIC PLEXUS; SIGMOID DISEASES; SUBMUCOUS PLEXUS;

EID: 17744376158     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-004-7462-9     Document Type: Article

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