Formalin installation for hemorrhagic radiation proctitis

Surgical Innovation

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 123-128

  Tsujinaka, Shingo ^a   Baig, Mirza K ^a   Gornev, Radislov ^a   de la Garza, Carlos ^a   Hwang, J K ^a   Sands, Dana ^a   Weiss, Eric G ^a   Nogueras, Juan J ^a   Efron, Jonathan ^a   Vernava III, Athony M ^a   Wexner, Steven D ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF COLORECTAL SURGERY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fecal incontinence; Formalin installation; Radiation proctitis; Rectal bleeding

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; COLESTYRAMINE; ENEMA; FORMALDEHYDE; HYDROCORTISONE; LIDOCAINE; MESALAZINE; HEMOSTATIC AGENT;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLITIS; COLON LAVAGE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DRUG INSTILLATION; ENDOSCOPIC THERAPY; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PAIN; PATIENT CODING; PROCTITIS; PROCTOSCOPE; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION INJURY; SEX RATIO; SIGMOIDECTOMY; TREATMENT INDICATION; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; RECTAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADMINISTRATION, RECTAL; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FORMALDEHYDE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEMOSTATICS; HUMANS; MALE; PROCTITIS; RADIATION INJURIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 23644438593     PISSN: 15533506     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/155335060501200209     Document Type: Article

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