What is the future of laparoscopy and can we do without it?

Zeitschrift fur Gastroenterologie

Volumn 39, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2001, Pages 41-44

  Nord, H J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL BLUNT TRAUMA; ABDOMINAL PENETRATING TRAUMA; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; FUTUROLOGY; GASTROENTEROLOGY; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPY; LIVER DISEASE; PERITONEAL DISEASE;

BIOPSY; FORECASTING; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; GASTROINTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; LIVER; LIVER DISEASES; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS;

EID: 0035131712     PISSN: 00442771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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