Complications of Colorectal Anastomoses: Leaks, Strictures, and Bleeding

Surgical Clinics of North America

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 61-87

  Davis, Bradley ^a   Rivadeneira, David E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^b Saint Catherine of Siena Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Air leak test; Anastomosis; Anastomotic leak; Bleeding; Stoma; Stricture

Indexed keywords

AGE; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ANESTHESIA; BLEEDING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BODY MASS; COLORECTAL ANASTOMOSIS; EMERGENCY SURGERY; ENTERITIS; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; METASTASIS; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OPERATION DURATION; OXYGEN SATURATION; OXYGEN TENSION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; SURGEON; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VASCULARIZATION;

ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; ANASTOMOTIC LEAK; ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITORS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL, HUMANIZED; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; COLECTOMY; COLON; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTORS; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASES; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; OXYGEN; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RECTUM; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE; SURGICAL STAPLING; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 84869792673     PISSN: 00396109     EISSN: 15583171     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.suc.2012.09.014     Document Type: Review

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