Incidence of anastomotic leak in patients undergoing elective colon resection without mechanical bowel preparation: Our updated experience and two-year review

American Surgeon

Volumn 75, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 828-833

  Harris, Lisa J ^a   Moudgill, Neil ^a   Hager, Eric ^a   Abdollahi, Hamid ^a   Goldstein, Scott ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CIGARETTE SMOKING; COLON CARCINOMA; COLON RESECTION; COLORECTAL ANASTOMOSIS; COLORECTAL DISEASE; COLORECTAL SURGERY; COLOSTOMY; COMORBIDITY; DIABETES MELLITUS; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; ILEOANAL ANASTOMOSIS; ILEOSTOMY; INCIDENCE; INTESTINE PREPARATION; KIDNEY DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PERCUTANEOUS DRAINAGE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REOPERATION; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; TOBACCO; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND INFECTION; ANASTOMOSIS; COLON; COLON DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FOLLOW UP; ILEUM; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RECTUM; TIME; TREATMENT FAILURE; UNITED STATES; WOUND DEHISCENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; COLECTOMY; COLON; COLONIC DISEASES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; ILEUM; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECTUM; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE; SURGICAL WOUND DEHISCENCE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT FAILURE; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349783890     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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