Objective Assessment of Postoperative Gastrointestinal Motility in Elective Colonic Resection Using a Radiopaque Marker Provides an Evidence for the Abandonment of Preoperative Mechanical Bowel Preparation

Background: It has been suggested that mechanical bowel preparation (MBP) has no benefit in terms of anastomotic healing, infection rate, or improvement in the postoperative course in patients undergoing elective colorectal surgery, and that it should be abandoned. However, the effect of MBP on post...

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