Successful Management of a Positive Air Leak Test during Laparoscopic Colorectal Surgery

Digestive Surgery

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2018, Pages 266-270

  Sasaki, Kazuhito ^a   Ishihara, Soichiro ^a   Nozawa, Hiroaki ^a   Kawai, Kazushige ^a   Hata, Keisuke ^a   Kiyomatsu, Tomomichi ^a   Tanaka, Toshiaki ^a   Nishikawa, Takeshi ^a   Otani, Kensuke ^a   Yasuda, Koji ^a   Murono, Koji ^a   Watanabe, Toshiaki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; COLON RESECTION; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL TUMOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PEROPERATIVE CARE; PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOTIC LEAK; COLECTOMY; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE CARE; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 85029754894     PISSN: 02534886     EISSN: 14219883     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000480157     Document Type: Article

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