Colonic Anastomotic Leak: Risk Factors, Diagnosis, and Treatment

Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Volumn 208, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 269-278

  Kingham, T Peter ^a   Pachter, H Leon ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEVACIZUMAB; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR;

ANASTOMOSIS DEHISCENCE; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ANTIANGIOGENIC ACTIVITY; CANCER RECURRENCE; COLON ANASTOMOSIS; COLON CANCER; COST; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INTESTINE PREPARATION; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; ISCHEMIA; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LENGTH OF STAY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NUTRITION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; STEROID THERAPY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITORS; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; COLON; COLONIC DISEASES; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; DRAINAGE; HUMANS; ISCHEMIA; LAPAROSCOPY; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; REOPERATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SURGICAL WOUND DEHISCENCE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 58249140072     PISSN: 10727515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2008.10.015     Document Type: Review

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