Current surgical management of pediatric idiopathic constipation: A systematic review of published studies

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 262, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 925-933

  Siminas, Sotirios ^a   Losty, Paul D ^b  

^a ROYAL MANCHESTER CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Botox; Idiopathic constipation; Outcome(s); Pediatrics; Surgery; Systematic review

Indexed keywords

BOTULINUM TOXIN; ENEMA;

ANUS DILATATION; ANUS SPHINCTER; ANUS SURGERY; CECOSTOMY; CHILD; COCHRANE LIBRARY; COLON ANASTOMOSIS; COLON LAVAGE; COLON RESECTION; COLORECTAL SURGERY; COLOSTOMY; CONSTIPATION; DILATATION; EMBASE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL RADIOGRAPHY; HARTMANN PROCEDURE; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC CONSTIPATION; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MEDLINE; MORBIDITY; MUSCLE RESECTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PEDIATRIC SURGEON; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; PELVIS FLOOR; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULL THROUGH OPERATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RECTUM RESECTION; REOPERATION; REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TOTAL COLON RESECTION; ABDOMINAL SURGERY; CHRONIC DISEASE; LAPAROSCOPY; PROCEDURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CECOSTOMY; CHILD; CHRONIC DISEASE; COLECTOMY; COLOSTOMY; CONSTIPATION; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SURGICAL PROCEDURES; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84948716889     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0000000000001191     Document Type: Review

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