The twisted colon: A review of sigmoid volvulus

American Surgeon

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 271-279

  Osiro, Stephen B ^a   Cunningham, Debbie ^b   Shoja, Mohammadali M ^c   Tubbs, R Shane ^d   Gielecki, Jerzy ^e   Loukas, Marios ^a,e  

^a ST GEORGE S UNIVERSITY   (Grenada)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^d CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e Varmia and Mazuria ^*  (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; AGE; COLON ANASTOMOSIS; COLON DISEASE; COLON OBSTRUCTION; COLON PERFORATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGENITALLY ELONGATED COLON; CONSTIPATION; DEATH; HEMORRHAGIC INFARCTION; HUMAN; INTESTINE INFARCTION; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MEGACOLON; MESENTERY; NOTE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROGNOSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RISK FACTOR; SEPTIC SHOCK; SIGMOID; SIGMOID VOLVULUS; SIGMOIDECTOMY; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; SYMPTOM; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ADULT; CHILD; COMORBIDITY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; INTESTINAL VOLVULUS; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; SIGMOID DISEASES; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 84857566006     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Note

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