Risk of complications from enterotomy or unplanned bowel resection during elective hernia repair

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 143, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 582-586

  Gray, Stephen H ^a,b,c   Vick, Catherine C ^a,b   Graham, Laura A ^a,b   Finan, Kelly R ^a,b   Neumayer, Leigh A ^d   Hawn, Mary T ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b Kentucky   (United States)

^c University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; FEMALE; HERNIOPLASTY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTESTINE RESECTION; INTESTINE SURGERY; KIDNEY FAILURE; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPERATING ROOM; OPERATION DURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; SURGICAL RISK; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; WOUND DEHISCENCE; WOUND INFECTION;

FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HERNIA, ABDOMINAL; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTESTINES; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL MESH; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE; TIME FACTORS; VETERANS;

EID: 45749097412     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: 15383644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.143.6.582     Document Type: Article

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