Open abdomen with concomitant enteroatmospheric fistula: attempt to rationalize the approach to a surgical nightmare and proposal of a clinical algorithm

J Am Coll Surg. 2015 Mar;220(3):e23-33. doi: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2014.11.020. Epub 2014 Nov 25.

¹ Maggiore Hospital, Bologna Local Health District, and Emergency Surgery and Trauma Surgery Unit, Maggiore Hospital Trauma Center, Bologna, Italy. Electronic address: salo75@inwind.it.
² Department of Emergency and Trauma Surgery, Maggiore Hospital, Parma, Italy.
³ Department of Surgery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA.
⁴ Trauma Center, Groote Schuur Hospital & University of Cape Town, South Africa.
⁵ General and Emergency and Trauma Surgery, Hospital Papa Giovanni XXIII, Bergamo, Italy.
⁶ Department of Surgery, Alicante University General Hospital, Alicante, Spain.
⁷ Maggiore Hospital, Bologna Local Health District, and Emergency Surgery and Trauma Surgery Unit, Maggiore Hospital Trauma Center, Bologna, Italy.
⁸ Attikon University Hospital, Department of Surgery IV, Surgery and Traumatology, Athens, Greece.

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