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The role of nasointestinal intubation in elective colonic surgery

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Diseases of the Colon & Rectum

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On hundred thirty-eight consecutive patients undergoing elective colonic resections were treated prospectively and randomly with either a long intestinal (Cantor) tube preoperatively, a nasogastric tube placed intraoperatively, or no gastrointestinal tube at all. Patients were evaluated for length of hospital stay, duration of postoperative ileus, adequacy of intraoperative intestinal decompression, gastric dilatation, and operative complications. No significant difference could be seen in the tubed or no-tube group.

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  1. Division of Colon and Rectum Surgery, UMDNJ-Rutgers Medical School, Plainfield, New Jersey

    D. B. Colvin M.D., W. Lee M.D., T. E. Eisenstat M.D., R. J. Rubin M.D. & E. P. Salvati M.D.

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Read in part at the meeting of the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons, San Diego, California, May 5 to 10, 1985.

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Colvin, D.B., Lee, W., Eisenstat, T.E. et al. The role of nasointestinal intubation in elective colonic surgery. Dis Colon Rectum 29, 295–299 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02554112

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