Failure in the treatment of carcinoma of the colon and rectum in connection with the operative technique

Stelzner, F.

Zentralblatt für Chirurgie 102(25): 1559-1563

1977


ISSN/ISBN: 0044-409X
PMID: 204131
Document Number: 110842
Colonic and rectal anastomoses are more subject to leakage than anastomoses in other parts of the gastrointestinal tract. The mortality is high. Many aetiologic factors are connected with the operative technique. The great role of collagenase in the colon which increases during an infection is a cause for an anastomotic break-down.

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