Systematic evaluation of surgical strategies for acute malignant left-sided colonic obstruction

British Journal of Surgery

Volumn 94, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1451-1460

  Breitenstein, S ^a   Rickenbacher, A ^a   Berdajs, D ^a   Puhan, M ^b   Clavien, P A ^a,b   Demartines, N ^a  

^a Department of Visceral and Transplantation Surgery ^*  (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE MALIGNANT LEFT SIDED COLONIC OBSTRUCTION; ANASTOMOSIS; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL STUDY; COLON OBSTRUCTION; COLON RESECTION; COLOSTOMY; DATA EXTRACTION; DECOMPRESSION; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; METHODOLOGY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STENT; STOMA; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

COLECTOMY; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; HUMANS; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; STENTS;

EID: 37249071488     PISSN: 00071323     EISSN: 13652168     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bjs.6007     Document Type: Review

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