Impact of new technologies on the clinical and functional outcome of Altemeier's procedure: A randomized, controlled trial

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 652-660

  Boccasanta, Paolo ^a,b   Venturi, Marco ^a   Barbieri, Sergio ^a   Roviaro, Giancarlo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Full thickness rectal prolapse; Perineal rectosigmoidectomy; Stapled coloanal anastomosis

Indexed keywords

CEFOTAXIME; DEXKETOPROFEN; LACTULOSE; MACROGOL; METRONIDAZOLE; POLYGLACTIN; POLYPROPYLENE;

ADULT; AGED; ALTEMEIER PROCEDURE; ANORECTAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CAUTERIZATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLON ANASTOMOSIS; COLONOSCOPY; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; LEVATOR ANI MUSCLE; MALE; MORBIDITY; OPERATION DURATION; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PERINEAL RECTOSIGMOIDECTOMY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; RECTUM PROLAPSE; RECURRENCE RISK; SCALPEL; SIGMOIDECTOMY; STAPLER; STENOSIS; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TENESMUS;

AGED; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; COLON, SIGMOID; COLONOSCOPY; CONSTIPATION; DEFECATION; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SURGICAL PROCEDURES; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FECAL INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; MALE; MANOMETRY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PERINEUM; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RECTAL PROLAPSE; RECTUM; SPASM; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONICS;

EID: 33646547265     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: 15300358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10350-006-0505-6     Document Type: Article

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