A review of emergency colonic surgery.
Recently, management priorities of colonic emergencies have shifted away from emergency operative management by junior surgeons to more thorough preoperative assessment and resuscitation followed by semi-elective surgery performed by experienced surgeons. The move towards more definitive primary surgical management is discussed, together with the various surgical controversies which remain undecided.
DeFriend
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Department of General and Colorectal Surgery, Manchester Royal Infirmary.
Hill
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D000368:Aged; D003092:Colitis / Q000601:surgery; D003106:Colon / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D003108:Colonic Diseases / Q000601:surgery; D003110:Colonic Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery; D004630:Emergencies; D006471:Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D007415:Intestinal Obstruction / Q000601:surgery; D011183:Postoperative Complications