The Altemeier procedure for rectal prolapse: An operation for all ages

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum

Volumn 53, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1618-1623

  Cirocco, William C ^a  

^a Shawnee Mission Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Altemeier procedure; Operation; Perineal proctosigmoidectomy; Perineal rectosigmoidectomy; Procidentia; Rectal prolapse

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ALTEMEIER PROCEDURE; ARTICLE; CONSTIPATION; CONVALESCENCE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; FLATULENCE; FOLLOW UP; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; JACKKNIFE POSITION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OPERATION DURATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; RECTUM PROLAPSE; RECTUM SURGERY; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANESTHESIA; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SURGICAL PROCEDURES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT POSITIONING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECTAL PROLAPSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 78651487898     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: 15300358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/DCR.0b013e3181f22cef     Document Type: Article

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