Has the use of anti-adhesion barriers affected the national rate of bowel obstruction?

American Surgeon

Volumn 77, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 773-777

  Geiger, Timothy M ^a   Roberts, Patricia L ^a   Read, Thomas E ^a   Marcello, Peter W ^a   Schoetz, David J ^a   Ricciardi, Rocco ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL DISEASE; ANTI ADHESION BARRIER; ARTICLE; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM SURGERY; GASTROINTESTINAL SURGERY; HEMATOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; INTRAABDOMINAL ADHESION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OBSTETRIC OPERATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; UROLOGIC SURGERY;

ABDOMEN; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; TISSUE ADHESIONS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79958138407     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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