Outcome of surgery for rectovaginal fistula due to Crohn's disease

British Journal of Surgery

Volumn 96, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1190-1195

  Ruffolo, C ^a,b   Penninckx, F ^a   Van Assche, G ^a   Vermeire, S ^a   Rutgeerts, P ^a   Coremans, G ^a   D'Hoore, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADALIMUMAB; INFLIXIMAB;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; COLON RESECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROHN DISEASE; DISEASE DURATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RECTOVAGINAL FISTULA; RECTUM ABDOMINOPERINEAL RESECTION; RECURRENT DISEASE; SCHOOL CHILD; THERAPY EFFECT; TREATMENT FAILURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; CHILD; CROHN DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MIDDLE AGED; RECTOVAGINAL FISTULA; RECURRENCE; REOPERATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70350093306     PISSN: 00071323     EISSN: 13652168     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bjs.6661     Document Type: Article

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