The effectiveness and appropriate management of abdominal drains in patients undergoing elective liver resection: A retrospective analysis and prospective case series

Surgery Today

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 372-380

  Tanaka, Kuniya ^a   Kumamoto, Takafumi ^a   Nojiri, Kazunori ^a   Takeda, Kazuhisa ^a   Endo, Itaru ^a  

^a YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Abdominal drain; Bile leak; Liver resection; Morbidity

Indexed keywords

BILIRUBIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASCITES; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BILE DUCT FISTULA; BILE DUCT LEAKAGE; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; CASE STUDY; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRAINAGE TUBE; DUODENUM PERFORATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER RESECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PERCUTANEOUS DRAINAGE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VALIDATION STUDY; WOUND DRAINAGE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASCITIC FLUID; BILE; DRAINAGE; FEMALE; HEPATECTOMY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84876479519     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: 14362813     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00595-012-0254-1     Document Type: Article

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