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Complications and functional outcomes of restorative proctocolectomy for ulcerative colitis in the elderly

BACKGROUND: Restorative proctocolectomy with ileopouch-anal anastomosis (IPAA) is the treatment of choice for intractable or complicated ulcerative colitis (UC). Debate exists concerning outcomes of IPAA in the elderly and literature data are scarce. We report our experience of IPAA in older populat...

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Autores principales: Pellino, Gianluca, Sciaudone, Guido, Candilio, Giuseppe, Camerlingo, Antonio, Marcellinaro, Rosa, Rocco, Federica, De Fatico, Serena, Canonico, Silvestro, Selvaggi, Francesco
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3851043/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24267006
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2482-13-S2-S9