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Factors affecting bowel gangrene development in patients with sigmoid volvulus

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Sigmoid gangrene develops in 6.1% to 93.4% of sigmoid volvulus (SV) cases, and increases the mortality rate from 0% to 40% without bowel gangrene to 3.7% to 80%. This study aimed to investigate factors that induce bowel gangrene development in SV patients. DESIGN AND SETTI...

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Autores principales: Atamanalp, Sabri Selcuk, Kisaoglu, Abdullah, Ozogul, Bunyami
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6078615/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23563002
http://dx.doi.org/10.5144/0256-4947.2013.144