Surgery
Volume 143, Issue 6 , Pages 778-783 , June 2008

Surgical autonomic denervation results in altered colonic motility: an explanation for low anterior resection syndrome?

  • Woo Yong Lee, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, Sungkyunkwan University, Samsung Medical Center, Seoul, Korea
    • ,
  • Toku Takahashi, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, Section of Colorectal Surgery, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
    • ,
  • Theodore Pappas, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, Section of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
    • Durham VA Medical Center, Durham, NC
    • ,
  • Christopher R. Mantyh, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, Section of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
    • Durham VA Medical Center, Durham, NC
    • ,
  • Kirk A. Ludwig, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, Section of Colorectal Surgery, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Kirk A. Ludwig, MD, Department of Surgery, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53226.

,Accepted 14 March 2008.

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 Presented at the Society of University Surgeons Meeting, Nashville, Tennessee, February 2005.

PII: S0039-6060(08)00181-5

doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2008.03.014

Surgery
Volume 143, Issue 6 , Pages 778-783 , June 2008

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