Systematic review of randomized trials comparing rubber band ligation with excisional haemorrhoidectomy

British Journal of Surgery

Volumn 92, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1481-1487

  Shanmugam, V ^a,c   Thaha, M A ^b   Rabindranath, K S ^a   Campbell, K L ^b   Steele, R J C ^b   Loudon, M A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^c NOTTINGHAM CITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSENTEEISM; ANUS DISEASE; ANUS FISSURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DATA BASE; FECES INCONTINENCE; FLATULENCE; HEMORRHOID; HEMORRHOIDECTOMY; HUMAN; LIGATION; LOW BACK PAIN; METHODOLOGY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; REMISSION; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SEPSIS; STENOSIS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINE RETENTION;

HEMORRHOIDS; HUMANS; LIGATION; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RECURRENCE; RETREATMENT; RUBBER; SAMPLE SIZE; SICK LEAVE;

EID: 28944449770     PISSN: 00071323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bjs.5185     Document Type: Review

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