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- Title
Deferred primary anastomosis versus diversion in patients with severe secondary peritonitis managed with staged laparotomies.
- Authors
Ordóñez, Carlos A; Sánchez, Alvaro I; Pineda, Jaime A; Badiel, Marisol; Mesa, Rafael; Cardona, Uriel; Arias, Rafael; Rosso, Fernando; Granados, Marcela; Gutiérrez-Martínez, María I; Ochoa, Juan B; Peitzman, Andrew; Puyana, Juan-Carlos
- Abstract
There is inconclusive data on whether critically ill individuals with severe secondary peritonitis requiring multiple staged laparotomies may became eligible candidates for deferred primary anastomoses (DPA). We sought to compare a protocol for DPA against a protocol for diversion in severely ill critical patients with intra-abdominal sepsis.
- Publication
World journal of surgery, 2010, Vol 34, Issue 1, p169
- ISSN
1432-2323
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00268-009-0285-y