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- Title
Short-term pre-operative smoking cessation intervention does not affect postoperative complications in colorectal surgery: a randomized clinical trial.
- Authors
Sørensen, Lars Tue; Jørgensen, Torben
- Abstract
Smokers have a higher risk of complicated tissue and wound healing after surgery than nonsmokers. We tested the hypothesis that short-term pre-operative cessation of smoking in colorectal surgery decreases the incidence of postoperative tissue and wound complications.
- Publication
Colorectal disease : the official journal of the Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland, 2003, Vol 5, Issue 4, p347
- ISSN
1462-8910
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1046/j.1463-1318.2003.00450.x