Laparoscopic rectal prolapse surgery combined with short hospital stay is safe in elderly and debilitated patients

Surgical Endoscopy and Other Interventional Techniques

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1353-1359

  Carpelan Holmstrom M ^a   Kruuna, O ^a   Scheinin, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Laparoscopy; Rectal prolapse; Rectopexy; Resection rectopexy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANUS CONTINENCE; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; FEMALE; FINLAND; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; OPERATION DURATION; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCTOPEXY; RECTUM PROLAPSE; RECTUM SURGERY; RECURRENT DISEASE; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SURGICAL PROCEDURES; FECAL INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECTAL PROLAPSE; RECTUM; RECURRENCE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33748990339     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: 14322218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-005-0217-3     Document Type: Article

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