A study of large-bowel volvulus in urban Australia

Canadian Journal of Surgery

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 203-207

  Lau, Kevin C N ^a   Miller, Brian J ^a,b   Schache, David J ^a   Cohen, Jon R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b PRINCESS ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENEMA;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CECUM; CECUM DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLON VOLVULUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECOMPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; FISTULA; HEMICOLECTOMY; HUMAN; ILEOSTOMY; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; LARGE INTESTINE; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SIGMOID VOLVULUS; TRANSVERSE COLON; URBAN AREA; COLONOSCOPY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; FOLLOW UP; INCIDENCE; INTESTINE VOLVULUS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUSTRALIA; COLONOSCOPY; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTESTINAL VOLVULUS; INTESTINE, LARGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 33745936445     PISSN: 0008428X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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