Current Status of Laparoscopic Colectomy - Is It Experimental?

Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 340-341

  Nelson, Heidi ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COLON RESECTION; COLON TUMOR; EDUCATION; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPY; METHODOLOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGERY;

COLECTOMY; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGERY;

EID: 0034220986     PISSN: 1091255X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1091-255X(00)80006-2     Document Type: Article

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