Should anastomotic assessment with flexible sigmoidoscopy be routine following laparoscopic restorative left colorectal resection?

Colorectal Disease

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 160-164

  Kamal, T ^a   Pai, A ^a   Velchuru, V R ^a   Zawadzki, M ^a   Park, J J ^a   Marecik, S J ^a   Abcarian, H ^b   Prasad, L M ^a,b  

^a ADVOCATE LUTHERAN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Anastomotic assessment; Intra operative flexible sigmoidoscopy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; CANCER SURGERY; COLORECTAL SURGERY; DIVERTICULITIS; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FAMILIAL COLON POLYPOSIS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL STAPLER; HAND ASSISTED LAPAROSCOPY; HUMAN; ILEOANAL ANASTOMOSIS; INTRA OPERATIVE FLEXIBLE SIGMOIDOSCOPY; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MEDICAL DEVICE COMPLICATION; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM CANCER; REPEAT PROCEDURE; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; STAPLER MISFIRING; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS; ANASTOMOTIC LEAK; COLON RESECTION; EVALUATION STUDY; LAPAROSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; PEROPERATIVE CARE; PROCEDURES; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL STAPLING;

ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; ANASTOMOTIC LEAK; COLECTOMY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE CARE; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; SURGICAL STAPLING; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84921368335     PISSN: 14628910     EISSN: 14631318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/codi.12809     Document Type: Article

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