Emergency laparoscopy: A community hospital experience

Surgical Endoscopy

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 484-487

  Agresta, F ^a   Michelet, I ^a   Coluci, G ^a   Bedin, N ^a  

^a Ospedale Civile di Vittorio Veneto   (Italy)

Author keywords

Abdominal emergencies; Diagnosis; Laparoscopy

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; APPENDICITIS; ARTICLE; CHOLECYSTITIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EMERGENCY SURGERY; EVALUATION; HERNIA; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PELVIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION; ULCER PERFORATION;

ADULT; AGED; APPENDICITIS; CHOLECYSTITIS; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HERNIA, FEMORAL; HERNIA, INGUINAL; HOSPITALS, COMMUNITY; HUMANS; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; LAPAROSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; PEPTIC ULCER PERFORATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0033916831     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004640000022     Document Type: Article

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