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Title: | Restorative proctocolectomy with ileal pouch reservoir in ulcerative colitis : the first series from Malta |
Authors: | Gatt, Dennis |
Keywords: | Colon (Anatomy) -- Surgery Ulcerative colitis -- Surgery Restorative proctocolectomy -- Malta -- Case studies |
Issue Date: | 1991 |
Publisher: | Maltese Medical Journal |
Citation: | Maltese Medical Journal. 1991, Vol. 3(1), p. 21-31 |
Abstract: | Seventy five to eighty percent of patients with ulcerative colitis are more or less satisfactorily treated medically. Surgery cures the disease, but because proper surgical therapy has until recently necessitated a permanent ileostomy, physicians and patients are understandably reluctant to agree to definitive surgical treatment until absolutely necessary. |
URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/712 |
Appears in Collections: | MMJ, Volume 3, Issue 1 MMJ, Volume 3, Issue 1 Scholarly Works - FacM&SSur |
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