Perineal wound complications, risk factors, and outcome after abdominoperineal resections

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 209-213

  Choudry, Umar ^a   Harris, Don ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

abdominoperineal resection; COPD; flaps; obesity; perineal wounds; risk factors; smoking; wound complications

Indexed keywords

ABDOMEN; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; EVALUATION STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; PERINEUM; PLASTIC SURGERY; RECTUM DISEASE; RECTUM PROLAPSE; RECTUM TUMOR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SURGICAL INFECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY; WOUND CLOSURE; WOUND DEHISCENCE; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASES; PROCEDURES; RECTAL DISEASES; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RECTAL PROLAPSE; SURGICAL WOUND DEHISCENCE; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

ABDOMEN; ABDOMINAL WOUND CLOSURE TECHNIQUES; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; PERINEUM; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RECTAL DISEASES; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RECTAL PROLAPSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL WOUND DEHISCENCE; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84869046624     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: 15363708     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SAP.0b013e31823fac2b     Document Type: Article

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