What's new in postoperative enterocutaneous fistulas?

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 336-338

  Schein, Moshe ^a  

^a MARSHFIELD CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ABDOMINAL WALL DEFECT; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ARGENTINA; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COLON FISTULA; COLOSTOMY; DUODENUM FISTULA; EDITORIAL; ELECTROLYTE BALANCE; ENTERIC FEEDING; ENTEROCUTANEOUS FISTULA; HUMAN; HYPOALBUMINEMIA; INTESTINE FISTULA; LAPAROTOMY; MORBIDITY; OXYGEN TISSUE LEVEL; PARENTERAL NUTRITION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; SEPSIS; STOMACH FISTULA; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; VACUUM;

CUTANEOUS FISTULA; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SURGICAL PROCEDURES; HUMANS; INTESTINAL FISTULA; POSTOPERATIVE CARE;

EID: 39749169700     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: 14322323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-007-9411-x     Document Type: Editorial

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