Gracilis muscle interposition for the treatment of rectourethral, rectovaginal, and pouch-vaginal fistulas: Results in 53 patients

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 248, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 39-43

  Wexner, Steven D ^a   Ruiz, Dan E ^a   Genua, Jill ^a   Nogueras, Juan J ^a   Weiss, Eric G ^a   Zmora, Oded ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF COLORECTAL SURGERY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSCESS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER THERAPY; CELLULITIS; CROHN DISEASE; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; FEVER; GRACILIS MUSCLE; GRACILIS MUSCLE INTERPOSITION; HEALING; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; LEG PAIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARESTHESIA; PENIS DISEASE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; POUCH VAGINA FISTULA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RECTOURETHRA FISTULA; RECTOVAGINAL FISTULA; RECTUM FISTULA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT RESPONSE; URETHRA FISTULA; URETHRA STRICTURE; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINE RETENTION; VAGINA DISEASE; AGED; MIDDLE AGED; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETHRA DISEASE; URINARY TRACT FISTULA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROHN DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECTAL FISTULA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETHRAL DISEASES; URINARY FISTULA; VAGINAL FISTULA;

EID: 48949118943     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e31817d077d     Document Type: Article

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