Emergency management of sigmoid volvulus: Experience of Lady Reading Hospital Peshawar

Journal of Postgraduate Medical Institute

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 82-85

  Hadi, Ain Ul ^a   Khan, Nadim ^a   Shah, Syed Murad Ali ^a   Bangash, Adil ^a  

^a LADY READING HOSPITAL   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Anastamosis; Diverting transverse loop colostomy; Resection; Sigmoid volvulus

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COLOSTOMY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; END TO END ANASTOMOSIS; FEMALE; GANGRENE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTESTINE RESECTION; MALE; PARALYTIC ILEUS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SAFETY; SEPTICEMIA; SEX RATIO; SIGMOID VOLVULUS; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND DEHISCENCE; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 33847607031     PISSN: 10135472     EISSN: 18119387     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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