Shortening postoperative stays: A cautionary note

Surgical Endoscopy and Other Interventional Techniques

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 375-376

  Kazantsev, G B ^a   Schwesinger, W H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBULATORY SURGERY; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLELITHIASIS; EDITORIAL; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0036185216     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: 14322218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-001-8276-6     Document Type: Editorial

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