Civilian extraperitoneal rectal gunshot wounds: Surgical management made simpler

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1345-1351

  Navsaria, Pradeep H ^a   Edu, Sorin ^a   Nicol, Andrew J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL INJURY; ABSCESS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANUS INJURY; ARTICLE; ATELECTASIS; BACTERIAL ARTHRITIS; COLOSTOMY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; GUNSHOT INJURY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPOVOLEMIC SHOCK; INFECTIOUS COMPLICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MENINGITIS; MORTALITY; NECROSIS; NECROTIZING FASCIITIS; OSTEITIS; PENETRATING TRAUMA; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PERITONITIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALGORITHMS; COLOSTOMY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; PERITONEAL CAVITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECTUM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TRAUMA CENTERS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT;

EID: 34447104279     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: 14322323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-007-9027-1     Document Type: Article

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