Surgical treatment of the sigmoid volvulus

Acta Chirurgica Belgica

Volumn 105, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 365-368

  Agaoglu N ^a,b   Yucel Y ^b   Turkyilmaz S ^b  

^a KARADENIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Sigmoid colon; Volvulus (surgery)

Indexed keywords

EID: 24644431523     PISSN: 00015458     EISSN: 25770160     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00015458.2005.11679737     Document Type: Article

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