Intraoperative air leak test reduces the rate of postoperative anastomotic leak: analysis of 777 laparoscopic left-sided colon resections

Surgical Endoscopy

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2019, Pages 1592-1599

  Allaix, Marco Ettore ^a   Lena, Adriana ^a   Degiuli, Maurizio ^a   Arezzo, Alberto ^a   Passera, Roberto ^b   Mistrangelo, Massimiliano ^a   Morino, Mario ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Air leak test; Anastomotic leakage; Colorectal cancer; Diverticulitis; Laparoscopic; Left hemicolectomy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AIR LEAK TEST; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ARTICLE; CAL-27 CELL LINE; COLON CANCER; COLON RESECTION; COLORECTAL ANASTOMOSIS; COLORECTAL ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; CONVERSION TO OPEN SURGERY; DEMOGRAPHY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC LEFT SIDED COLON RESECTION; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL PROCEDURES; MORBID OBESITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OPERATION DURATION; PELVIS ABSCESS; PEROPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; STOMA; TREATMENT INDICATION; ANASTOMOSIS; LAPAROSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; ANASTOMOTIC LEAK; COLECTOMY; ELECTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE CARE; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 85053054172     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: 14322218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-018-6421-8     Document Type: Article

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