Preoperative bowel preparation: Surgical standard or past?

Digestive Surgery

Volumn 23, Issue 5-6, 2007, Pages 375-380

  Müller Stich, Beat P ^a   Choudhry, Arash ^a   Vetter, Gregor ^a   Antolovic, Dalibor ^a   Mehrabi, Arianeb ^a   Köninger, Jörg ^a   Weitz, Jürgen ^a   Büchler, Markus W ^a   Gutt, Carsten N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bowel cleansing; Bowel irrigation; Colorectal surgery; Preoperative bowel preparation

Indexed keywords

ANASTOMOSIS; ANASTOMOSIS DEHISCENCE; CLEANING; COLORECTAL SURGERY; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HUMAN; ILEOSTOMY; INTESTINE PREPARATION; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDLINE; MORTALITY; RECTUM RESECTION; REOPERATION; REVIEW; RISK; SURGICAL INFECTION;

CATHARTICS; COLORECTAL SURGERY; HUMANS; IRRIGATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; REOPERATION; SURGICAL WOUND DEHISCENCE; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 33847076825     PISSN: 02534886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000097952     Document Type: Review

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