Single-layer continuous suturing for end-to-end colonic anastomosis using a modified closed-bowel technique

Surgery Today

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 642-644

  Görög, Dénes ^a   Péter, Antal ^a   Szabó, József ^a   Perner, Ferenc ^a  

^a SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Anastomosis; Colon; Single layer suture

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ARTICLE; COLON ANASTOMOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION; INTESTINE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; REOPERATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SUTURING METHOD;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; COLON; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SURGICAL PROCEDURES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SUTURE TECHNIQUES;

EID: 3042711820     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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