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01-07-2012
Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) Program Attenuates Stress and Accelerates Recovery in Patients After Radical Resection for Colorectal Cancer: Reply
Authors:
Li Ren, Dexiang Zhu, Ye Wei, Yunshi Zhong, Jianmin Xu
Published in:
World Journal of Surgery
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Issue 7/2012
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Excerpt
We thank Pappalardo and Coiro [
1] for their interest in our article [
2]. They think that there is a significant difference in evaluating the usefulness or not of preoperative mechanical bowel preparation (MBP) in colonic and rectal resections. They also state that the usefulness of MBP in rectal resections depends on the surgical strategy of derivative stoma. …