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Balfour's method
Also known as:
Méthode de Balfour (French)
Associated persons:
Donald Church Balfour
Description:
Operation for resection of the sigmoid colon. No longer used.
French description: Opération destinée à supprimer un ulcère gastrique par thermo-cauterisation et enfuissement. Elle n'est plus utilisée actuellement.
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Bibliography:
- D. C. Balfour:
A method of anastomosis between sigmoid and rectum.
Annals of Surgery, Philadelphia, 1910, 51: 239-241.
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