Mechanical bowel preparation. A necessity or nothing more (or less) than the weight of tradition?;Preparar el colon para la cirugía. ¿Necesidad real o nada más (y nada menos) que el peso de la tradición?

Cirugia Espanola

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 240-246

  Roig Vila, José V ^a   García Armengol, Juan ^a   Alós, Rafael ^b   Solana, Amparo ^b   Rodríguez Carrillo, Rodolfo ^c   Galindo, Pablo ^a   Fabra, M Isabel ^a   López Delgado, Alberto ^a   Garciá Romero, José ^a  

^a HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO DE VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL DE SAGUNTO   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL DE LA RIBERA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Anastomotic leakage; Colon surgery; Mechanical bowel preparation; Wound infection

Indexed keywords

EID: 34250380276     PISSN: 0009739X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-739X(07)71312-X     Document Type: Review

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