An unusual complication of the use of stapler after Hartmann's procedure

West African Journal of Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 289-291

  Kaymakcioglu, Nihat ^a   Yagci, Gokhan ^a   Can, Mehmet Fatih ^a   Unlu, Aytekin ^a   Bulakbasi, Nail ^a   Cetiner, Sadettin ^a   Tufan, Turgut ^a  

^a GULHANE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Colovaginal anastomosis; Low anterior resection; Rectovaginal fistula; Stapling technique

Indexed keywords

FLUOROURACIL; FOLINIC ACID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COLOSTOMY; COLOVAGINAL ANASTOMOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; END TO END ANASTOMOSIS; FECES INCONTINENCE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; ILEOSTOMY; INTESTINE ANASTOMOSIS; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RECTOVAGINAL FISTULA; RECTUM CARCINOMA; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; REOPERATION; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; SURGICAL STAPLING; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VAGINA DISCHARGE; WOUND INFECTION;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; COLOSTOMY; FEMALE; HUMANS; RECTOVAGINAL FISTULA; SUTURES;

EID: 33847643716     PISSN: 0189160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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