Review of major complications of laparoscopy in a free-standing gynaecological day case hospital

Gynaecological Endoscopy

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 265-270

  Tsaltas, Jim ^a   Healy, David L ^a   Lloyd, David ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Monash Medical Centre ^*

Author keywords

Day case surgery; Hasson; Laparoscopy; Major complications; Veress

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMBULATORY SURGERY; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BLEEDING; CANNULA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; INTESTINE INJURY; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LAPAROTOMY; NEEDLE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMALL INTESTINE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

EID: 0029904106     PISSN: 09621091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2508.1996.2830434.x     Document Type: Article

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