Transanal circular stapler technique: A simple and highly effective method for the management of high-grade stenosis of low colorectal anastomoses

Surgical Laparoscopy, Endoscopy and Percutaneous Techniques

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 375-378

  Nissotakis, Christos ^a   Sakorafas, George H ^b   Vugiouklakis, Dimitrios ^a   Kostopoulos, Panagiotis ^a   Peros, George ^b  

^a NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cancer; Colon; Colorectal anastomosis; Rectum; Reoperation; Repair; Stapler; Stenosis; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ANUS SURGERY; ARTICLE; BALLOON DILATATION; BARIUM ENEMA; CASE REPORT; COLORECTAL ANASTOMOSIS; COLOSTOMY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; GRAFT OCCLUSION; HUMAN; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; MALE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM CANCER; RECTUM POLYP; SURGICAL STAPLING; TRANSANAL CIRCULAR STAPLER TECHNIQUE; ANASTOMOSIS; COLORECTAL TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; STENOSIS, OCCLUSION AND OBSTRUCTION; TISSUE ADHESION;

AGED; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; MALE; SURGICAL STAPLING; TISSUE ADHESIONS;

EID: 58149401128     PISSN: 15304515     EISSN: 15344908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLE.0b013e318172dcf7     Document Type: Article

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