Randomized clinical trial evaluating the need for routine nasogastric decompression after elective hepatic resection

British Journal of Surgery

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 297-303

  Pessaux, P ^a   Regimbeau, J M ^a   Dondero F ^a   Plasse, M ^a   Mantz, J ^a   Belghiti, J ^a  

^a BEAUJON HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATELECTASIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLORECTAL SURGERY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FECES; FEMALE; FLATULENCE; HUMAN; ILEUS; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER RESECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; NASOGASTRIC TUBE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; STOMACH INTUBATION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL RISK;

DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEPATECTOMY; HUMANS; INTUBATION, GASTROINTESTINAL; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33947252971     PISSN: 00071323     EISSN: 13652168     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bjs.5728     Document Type: Article

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