The dilated bowel: a liability and an asset

Seminars in Pediatric Surgery

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 249-257

  Bianchi, A ^a   Morabito, A ^a  

^a ROYAL MANCHESTER CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Autologous bowel reconstruction (AGIR); Bowel dilatation; Bowel lengthening; Dysmotility

Indexed keywords

ANUS ATRESIA; ARTICLE; CHILD HEALTH CARE; COLON ATRESIA; DUODENUM ATRESIA; DUODENUM OBSTRUCTION; ESOPHAGUS OBSTRUCTION; GASTROINTESTINAL ABSORPTION; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GASTROINTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; GASTROINTESTINAL SURGERY; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HIRSCHSPRUNG DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHY; INTESTINE ATRESIA; INTESTINE MOTILITY; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; INTESTINE SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULL THROUGH OPERATION; QUALITY OF LIFE; SEPSIS; STOMACH DISTENSION; SURVIVAL; TRACHEOESOPHAGEAL FISTULA;

ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM ABNORMALITIES; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION;

EID: 70349281757     PISSN: 10558586     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.sempedsurg.2009.07.010     Document Type: Article

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