Preparation of the intestine in patients undergoing major large-bowel surgery, mainly for neoplasms of the colon and rectum.

What it found

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The trial behind it

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Who cites it

22 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

1. The value of mechanical bowel preparation in elective colorectal surgery: an updated meta-analysis and systematic review.BMC gastroenterology · 2025
   Pooled it
2. Mechanical bowel preparation and antibiotics in elective colorectal surgery: network meta-analysis.BJS open · 2023
   Pooled it
3. The Role of Oral Antibiotic Preparation in Elective Colorectal Surgery: A Meta-analysis.Annals of surgery · 2019
   Pooled it
4. Antimicrobial prophylaxis for colorectal surgery.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2014
   Pooled it
5. Association of bowel preparation with surgical-site infection in gynecologic oncology surgery: Post-hoc analysis of a randomized controlled trial.Gynecologic oncology · 2023
   Trial
6. Use of peroperative cefoxitin to prevent infection after colonic and rectal surgery.Annals of surgery · 1981
   Trial
7. Influence of depth of suture bite on integrity of single-layer large-bowel anastomoses: controlled trial.Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine · 1979
   Trial
8. Systemic prophylaxis with doxycycline in surgery of the colon and rectum.Annals of surgery · 1978
   Trial
9. Topical ampicillin against wound infection after colorectal surgery.Annals of surgery · 1972
   Trial
10. The Impact of Surgical Bowel Preparation on the Microbiome in Colon and Rectal Surgery.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024
    Review
11. Evidence according to Cochrane Systematic Reviews on Alterable Risk Factors for Anastomotic Leakage in Colorectal Surgery.Gastroenterology research and practice · 2020
    Review
12. Preparing the bowel for surgery: rethinking the strategy.Nature reviews. Gastroenterology & hepatology · 2019
    Article
13. Infection control in colon surgery.Langenbeck's archives of surgery · 2016
    Review
14. Surgery for obstructed colorectal malignancy in an Asian population: predictors of morbidity and comparison between left- and right-sided cancers.Journal of gastrointestinal surgery : official journal of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract · 2010
    Article
15. Bowel preparation: current status.Clinics in colon and rectal surgery · 2009
    Article
16. [Wound healing disorder in surgery of colorectal cancer--a multifactorial computer analysis].Langenbecks Archiv fur Chirurgie · 1985
    Article
17. Historical development of intestinal antisepsis.World journal of surgery · 1982
    Article
18. Wound repair. Repair after resection.Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England · 1978
    Review
19. Comparison of catgut and polyglycolic acid sutures in colonic anastomoses.World journal of surgery · 1977
    Article
20. Chemoprophylaxis in surgery.Postgraduate medical journal · 1976
    Article

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