| dc.contributor |
Médecins Sans Frontières, Brussels, Belgium. |
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| dc.creator |
Moreels, R |
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| dc.creator |
Pont, M |
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| dc.creator |
Ean, S |
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| dc.creator |
Vitharit, M |
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| dc.creator |
Vuthy, C |
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| dc.creator |
Roy, S |
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| dc.creator |
Boelaert, M |
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| dc.date |
1994-05 |
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| dc.date.accessioned |
2017-01-31T07:10:13Z |
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| dc.date.available |
2017-01-31T07:10:13Z |
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| dc.identifier |
Wartime Colon Injuries: Primary Repair or Colostomy? 1994, 87 (5):265-7notJ R Soc Med |
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| dc.identifier |
0141-0768 |
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| dc.identifier |
8207721 |
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| dc.identifier |
http://hdl.handle.net/10144/19394 |
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| dc.identifier |
http://fieldresearch.msf.org/msf/handle/10144/19394 |
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| dc.identifier |
Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine |
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| dc.identifier.uri |
http://dspace.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10144/19394 |
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| dc.description |
A retrospective non-randomized study, comparing primary repair with colostomy, was made on a series of 102 patients with penetrating intraperitoneal colon injuries, in a war surgery programme in Cambodia. The overall case fatality rate (CFR) was 25.5%, whereas in the primary repair group CFR was 20%, compared to 30.8% in the colostomy group. The difference was not statistically significant (P = 0.30). Adjustment for possible confounding factors in the two groups did not alter the results. Considering the numerous advantages to the patient of a primary closure in the precarious situations where war surgery is often performed, this technique merits consideration. |
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| dc.language |
en |
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| dc.publisher |
Published by the Royal Society of Medicine |
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| dc.relation |
http://www.jrsm.org/ |
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| dc.rights |
Archived on this site with kind permission of the Royal Society of Medicine, [url]http://jrsm.rsmjournals.com[/url] |
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| dc.title |
Wartime Colon Injuries: Primary Repair or Colostomy? |
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