Results, outcome predictors, and complications after stapled transanal rectal resection for obstructed defecation

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 186-195

  Gagliardi, Giuseppe ^a   Pescatori, Mario ^b   Altomare, Donato F ^c   Binda, Gian Andrea ^d   Bottini, Corrado ^e   Dodi, Giuseppe ^f   Filingeri, Vincenzino ^g   Milito, Giovanni ^h   Rinaldi, Marcella ^c   Romano, Giovanni ⁱ   Spazzafumo, Liana ^j   Trompetto, Mario ^k  

^a Clinica Pineta Grande   (Italy)

^b Villa Flaminia Hospital   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^d GALLIERA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^e Azienda Ospedaliera S Antonio Abate di Gallarate   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^g S EUGENIO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^h UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

ⁱ S G MOSCATI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^j INRCA   (Italy)

^k Clinica San Gaudenzio   (Italy)

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Author keywords

Intussusception; Outlet obstruction; Pelvic floor disease; Rectocele; Stapled transanal rectal resection; STARR; Transanal surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANUS; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFECATION DISORDER; DEFECATION HABIT; ENTEROCELE; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; INTESTINE INTUSSUSCEPTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NECROTIZING FASCIITIS; PELVIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROGNOSIS; RECTOCELE; RECTOVAGINAL FISTULA; RECTUM RESECTION; RECURRENT DISEASE; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL STAPLING; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGED; DEFECATION; DEFECOGRAPHY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SURGICAL PROCEDURES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTUSSUSCEPTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECTAL DISEASES; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; SUTURES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 39149140699     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: 15300358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10350-007-9096-0     Document Type: Article

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