Sigmoid volvulus in the elderly: Outcomes of a 43-year, 453-patient experience

Surgery Today

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 514-519

  Atamanalp, S Selcuk ^a   Ozturk, Gurkan ^a  

^a ATATURK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Elderly patient; Sigmoid colon; Volvulus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLON RADIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EMERGENCY SURGERY; EVISCERATION; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; HUMAN; HYPOVOLEMIC SHOCK; ILEUS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENCE RISK; RECURRENT DISEASE; SIGMOID VOLVULUS; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL MORTALITY;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL VOLVULUS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SHOCK; SIGMOID DISEASES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79956218801     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: 14362813     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00595-010-4317-x     Document Type: Article

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