Palliative Treatment of Bowel Obstruction With Colostomy Under Local Anesthesia in Frail Patients: A Single-Site Experience

Introduction: Attendance of patients to the emergency department due to acute large bowel obstruction is a common phenomenon. Most of these patients are elderly, critically ill, and with high comorbidity. The literature suggests that more than 50% of these cases are due to colon cancer. Since this c...

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Autores principales: Doudakmanis, Christos, Baxevanidou, Kyriaki, Chatzikomnitsa, Paraskevi, Kolla, Christina, Bouliaris, Konstantinos, Giaglaras, Anargiros, Efthimiou, Matthaios, Koukoulis, Georgios D
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
Materias:
Emergency Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10590149/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37868559
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.45698

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10590149/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37868559
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.45698

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