Surgical intervention for gastrointestinal foreign bodies in adults: A case series

Medical Principles and Practice

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 276-279

  Syrakos, Theodoros ^a   Zacharakis, Emmanouil ^b,c   Antonitsis, Polichronis ^a   Zacharakis, Evangelos ^b   Spanos, Constantinos ^a   Georgantis, G ^a   Kiskinis, Dimitrios ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b Surgical Department   (Greece)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Complications; Foreign body ingestion; Surgical treatment

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM INFLAMMATION; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM INJURY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; FOREIGN BODY; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GASTROINTESTINAL SURGERY; HUMAN; MALE; PERITONITIS; ULCER PERFORATION;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; FOREIGN BODIES; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HUMANS; INTESTINAL PERFORATION; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 44849106212     PISSN: 10117571     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000129605     Document Type: Article

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