Leaks and endoscopic assessment of break of integrity after NOTES gastrotomy: the LEAKING study, a prospective, randomized, controlled trial

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 71, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1018-1024

  Willingham, Field F ^a   Turner, Brian G ^a   Gee, Denise W ^a   Cizginer, Sevdenur ^a   Sohn, Dae K ^a   Sylla, Patricia ^a   Kambadakone, Avinash ^a   Sahani, Dushyant ^a   Mino Kenudson, Mari ^a   Rattner, David W ^a   Brugge, William R ^a  

^a Gastrointestinal Unit   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL WALL DEFECT; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GASTROSTOMY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MORTALITY; NATURAL ORIFICE TRANSLUMINAL ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; NONHUMAN; PERITONEAL FLUID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIODIAGNOSIS; REOPERATION; STOMACH PRESSURE; SWINE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WEIGHT GAIN;

ANIMALS; CONTRAST MEDIA; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GASTROSCOPY; GASTROSTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PRESSURE; SWINE;

EID: 77951614481     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: 10976779     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2009.10.053     Document Type: Article

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