Results of treatment in children with anorectal malformations in Calabar, Nigeria

South African Journal of Surgery

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 88-90

  Archibong, A E ^a   Idika, I M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABAR   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ANAL STENOSIS; ANORECTAL MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; COLOSTOMY; CONSTIPATION; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MECONIUM; NEWBORN; NEWBORN PERIOD; NIGERIA; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POVERTY; STENOSIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOMITING;

ANAL CANAL; COLOSTOMY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SURGICAL PROCEDURES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; NIGERIA; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECTUM;

EID: 4644329592     PISSN: 00382361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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