CT assessment of anastomotic bowel leak

Clinical Radiology

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 37-42

  Power, N ^a   Atri, M ^a   Ryan, S ^a   Haddad, R ^a   Smith, A ^a  

^a SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSCESS DRAINAGE; ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONSENSUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTESTINE ANASTOMOSIS; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PERCUTANEOUS DRAINAGE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST; REOPERATION; SEPSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TOTAL PARENTERAL NUTRITION;

ABSCESS; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIR; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BODY FLUIDS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DRAINAGE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HUMANS; INTESTINE, LARGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARENTERAL NUTRITION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; SURGICAL WOUND DEHISCENCE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34447285437     PISSN: 00099260     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crad.2006.08.004     Document Type: Article

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