The unkindest cut of all: When a small laparoscopy incision has to be converted to a laparotomy

Current Opinion in Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 359-361

  Sutton, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL WALL; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; DISPOSABLE EQUIPMENT; EDITORIAL; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY; HUMAN; INCISION; INTESTINE INJURY; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LAPAROTOMY; PERITONEAL CAVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT;

EID: 0032763727     PISSN: 1040872X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001703-199908000-00001     Document Type: Editorial

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