Rectal Prolapse: A Historical Perspective

Current Problems in Surgery

Volumn 46, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 602-716

  Wu, James S ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; DEXTRANOMER; ERGOT ALKALOID; GLYCEROL; HYALURONIC ACID; HYDROCHLORIC ACID; LAXATIVE; MONOETHANOLAMINE OLEATE; PARAFFIN; PHENOL; POLITEF; POLYVINYL ALCOHOL; QUININE SULFATE; SULFURIC ACID; TANNIN;

ABDOMINAL PRESSURE; ANAMNESIS; ANUS SPHINCTER; ARTICLE; BIRTH; BLADDER STONE; CAUTERIZATION; CINERADIOGRAPHY; COLIC; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSTIPATION; COUGHING; DEFECOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC MUCOSAL RESECTION; HEMORRHOID; HUMAN; INTESTINE FUNCTION; INTUSSUSCEPTION; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MALNUTRITION; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROCTOPEXY; PROSTATE HYPERTROPHY; RECTUM POLYP; RECTUM PROLAPSE; RECTUM RESECTION; RECTUM SURGERY; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; SIGMOIDECTOMY; SNEEZING; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SUTURING METHOD; URETHRA STRICTURE; UTERUS PROLAPSE;

ANIMALS; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SURGICAL PROCEDURES; ELECTROCOAGULATION; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; RECTAL PROLAPSE; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL MESH;

EID: 67649444319     PISSN: 00113840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/j.cpsurg.2009.03.006     Document Type: Article

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