Outcomes of the rectal remnant following colectomy for ulcerative colitis

Colorectal Disease

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 144-150

  Brady, Richard R W ^a   Collie, M H S ^b   Ho, G T ^b   Bartolo, D C C ^b   Wilson, R G ^b   Dunlop, M G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b WESTERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Colectomy; Outcomes; Rectal catheter; Rectum; Ulcerative colitis

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOMODULATING AGENT; STEROID;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; COLON RESECTION; DATA ANALYSIS; DEATH; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; ILEOANAL ANASTOMOSIS; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; KIDNEY FAILURE; LIMB ISCHEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PELVIS COLLECTION; PELVIS SEPSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTAL REMNANT; RECTAL STUMP DEHISCENCE; RECTUM MUCOSA; RECTUM PERFORATION; RECTUM RESECTION; REOPERATION; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; STOMA; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TOXIC MEGACOLON; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULCERATIVE COLITIS; WOUND INFECTION;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLECTOMY; COLITIS, ULCERATIVE; DRAINAGE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROCTOCOLECTOMY, RESTORATIVE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECTUM; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 38349028638     PISSN: 14628910     EISSN: 14631318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-1318.2007.01224.x     Document Type: Article

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