Is laparoscopic surgery applicable to complicated colonic diverticular disease?

Surgical Endoscopy

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1021-1025

  Franklin Jr , M E ^a   Dorman, J P ^a   Jacobs, M ^b   Plasencia, G ^b  

^a Texas Endosurgery Institute   (United States)

^b BAPTIST HOSPITAL OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Bleeding; Complicated diverticulitis; Laparoscopic colectomy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COLON DIVERTICULOSIS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; INTESTINE PERFORATION; LAPAROSCOPY; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RUPTURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DIVERTICULITIS, COLONIC; DIVERTICULUM, COLON; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL PERFORATION; LAPAROSCOPY; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RUPTURE, SPONTANEOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031252947     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004649900516     Document Type: Article

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