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Lessons learned from one thousand consecutive colonic resections in a teaching hospital

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Schweizerische medizinische Wochenschrift, vol. 137, no. 17-18, p. 259-264

Publication date

2007

Abstract

Elective colectomies are standard procedures carrying below 1% mortality; by contrast, emergency colonic resections remain surgical challenges in compromised and/or elderly patients and are associated with high complication rates.

Keywords

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Aged
  • Aged, 80 and over
  • Colectomy/adverse effects/mortality
  • Colon/surgery
  • Emergencies
  • Female
  • Hospital Mortality
  • Hospitals, Teaching/statistics & numerical data
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Postoperative Complications
  • Prospective Studies
  • Risk Factors
  • Surgical Procedures, Elective
  • Switzerland/epidemiology
  • Treatment Outcome

Citation (ISO format)

BUCHS, Nicolas et al. Lessons learned from one thousand consecutive colonic resections in a teaching hospital. In: Schweizerische medizinische Wochenschrift, 2007, vol. 137, n° 17-18, p. 259–264. doi: 10.4414/smw.2007.11750

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