Current Management of Small Bowel Obstruction

Advances in Surgery

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-29

  Zielinski, Martin Donald ^a   Bannon, Michael Patrick ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; CROHN DISEASE; ENTERITIS; HERNIA; HUMAN; INTESTINE; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; ISCHEMIA; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RADIOTHERAPY; REVIEW; VASCULARIZATION;

ALGORITHMS; CROHN DISEASE; ENTERITIS; HERNIA; HUMANS; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; INTESTINES; ISCHEMIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RADIOTHERAPY;

EID: 79961182233     PISSN: 00653411     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yasu.2011.03.017     Document Type: Review

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