Treatment of complex anal fistulas with the collagen fistula plug

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum

Volumn 51, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1482-1487

  Christoforidis, Dimitrios ^a,c   Etzioni, David A ^a,b   Goldberg, Stanley M ^a   Madoff, Robert D ^a   Mellgren, Anders ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

AFP; Anal; Collagen; Complex; Cryptoglandular; Fistula; Plug; Surgisis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANUS FISTULA; ANUS SPHINCTER; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; BIOPROSTHESIS; COLLAGEN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECTAL FISTULA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 52649158299     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: 15300358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10350-008-9374-5     Document Type: Article

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