Management of colonic injuries in the setting of damage-control laparotomy: One shot to get it right

Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 594-600

  Anjaria, Devashish J ^a   Ullmann, Timothy M ^a   Lavery, Robert ^a   Livingston, David H ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Colon anastomosis; Colon injury; Colostomy; Damage control laparotomy; Open abdomen

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ABDOMINAL BLUNT TRAUMA; ABDOMINAL PENETRATING TRAUMA; ABSCESS DRAINAGE; ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ARTICLE; COLON ANASTOMOSIS; COLON INJURY; COLON RESECTION; COLOSTOMY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAMAGE CONTROL LAPAROTOMY; FASCIA; FEMALE; FULL THICKNESS SKIN GRAFT; HEMICOLECTOMY; HUMAN; ILEOSTOMY; INJURY SCALE; LAPAROTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERITONITIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPSIS; SPLIT THICKNESS SKIN GRAFT; STOMA; SURGICAL INFECTION; THERAPY DELAY; WOUND CLOSURE; WOUND DEHISCENCE;

ABDOMINAL WOUND CLOSURE TECHNIQUES; ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; COLON; FEMALE; HUMANS; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84896710419     PISSN: 21630755     EISSN: 21630763     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0000000000000132     Document Type: Article

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