Does Alvimopan enhance return of bowel function in laparoscopic right colectomy?

American Surgeon

Volumn 77, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1460-1462

  Abodeely, Adam ^b   Schechter, Steven ^a,b   Klipfel, Adam ^b   Vrees, Matthew ^a   Lagares Garcia, Jorge ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Rhode Island Colorectal Clinic LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALVIMOPAN;

AGED; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; COLON RESECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; FLATULENCE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; ILEUS; INTESTINE FUNCTION; INTESTINE MOTILITY; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PILOT STUDY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT DURATION;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; AGED; COLECTOMY; COLONIC DISEASES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTROINTESTINAL AGENTS; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; HUMANS; ILEUS; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; PIPERIDINES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECEPTORS, OPIOID, MU; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 80755141387     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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