Sigmoid volvulus in the Middle East

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 459-464

  Heis, Hussein A ^a   Bani Hani, Kamal E ^a   Rabadi, Daher K ^a   Elheis, Mwaffaq A ^a   Bani Hani, Bayan K ^a   Mazahreh, Tagleb S ^a   Bataineh, Ziyad A ^a   Al Zoubi, Nabeil A ^a   Obeidallah, Mohammed S ^a  

^a KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Jordan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL TENDERNESS; ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLONOSCOPY; CONSTIPATION; FECES; FEMALE; GANGRENE; HUMAN; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; INTESTINE SOUND; LARGE INTESTINE; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MIDDLE EAST; MUSCLE RIGIDITY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREVALENCE; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SIGMOID; SIGMOID VOLVULUS; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; VOMITING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLOSTOMY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; INTESTINAL VOLVULUS; JORDAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SIGMOID DISEASES; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 39749118053     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: 14322323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-007-9353-3     Document Type: Article

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