Clinical, physiological and radiological assessment of rectovaginal septum reinforcement with mesh for complex rectocele

British Journal of Surgery

Volumn 95, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1264-1272

  D'Hoore, A ^a   Vanbeckevoort, D ^a   Penninckx, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMATERIAL; POLYPROPYLENE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSTIPATION; DYSPAREUNIA; ENTEROCELE; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT FUNCTION; GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LENGTH OF STAY; MANOMETRY; MORBIDITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERIOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCTOPEXY; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RECTOCELE; RECTUM PROLAPSE; RECTUM SURGERY; RECURRENT DISEASE; SURGICAL APPROACH; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URGE INCONTINENCE; VAGINA RECONSTRUCTION; DISSECTION; INTUSSUSCEPTION; LAPAROSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; RECTUM; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; SUTURING METHOD; VAGINA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DISSECTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTUSSUSCEPTION; LAPAROSCOPY; MANOMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; POLYPROPYLENES; RECTOCELE; RECTUM; SURGICAL MESH; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; VAGINA;

EID: 52449135105     PISSN: 00071323     EISSN: 13652168     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bjs.6322     Document Type: Article

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