Assessing the safety, effectiveness, and quality of life after the STARR procedure for obstructed defecation: Results of the German STARR registry

Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery

Volumn 395, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 505-513

  Schwandner, Oliver ^a   Fürst, Alois ^a  

^a CARITAS KRANKENHAUS ST JOSEF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Effectiveness; Morbidity; Obstructed defecation; Quality of life; STARR

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEFECATION DISORDER; DEFECATION URGENCY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MORBIDITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; OBSTRUCTED DEFECATION SYNDROME; OPERATION DURATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECTUM RESECTION; REGISTER; SAFETY; SCORING SYSTEM; STAPLE TRANSANAL RECTAL RESECTION; STENOSIS; SURGICAL INFECTION; TREATMENT RESPONSE; WOUND DEHISCENCE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMPLICATION; CONSTIPATION; DEFECATION; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT SELECTION; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECTAL PROLAPSE; RECTOCELE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONSTIPATION; DEFECATION; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECTAL PROLAPSE; RECTOCELE; REGISTRIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 80052611650     PISSN: 14352443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00423-009-0591-8     Document Type: Article

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