Aetiology and surgical management of toxic megacolon

Colorectal Disease

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 195-201

  Ausch, Christoph A ^a   Madoff, R D ^b   Gnant, M ^a   Rosen, H R ^a   Garcia Aguilar, J ^b   Holbling N ^a   Herbst, F ^a   Buxhofer, V ^a   Holzer, B ^a   Rothenberger, D A ^b   Schiessel, R ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Aetiology; Surgical management; Toxic megacolon

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; CYTOTOXIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLON RESECTION; COLON SURGERY; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; ENTERITIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; ILEOSTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCTOCOLECTOMY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TOXIC MEGACOLON; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SURGICAL PROCEDURES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEGACOLON, TOXIC; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 33644897862     PISSN: 14628910     EISSN: 14631318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-1318.2005.00887.x     Document Type: Review

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