Endoscopic surgery in Senegal: Benefits, costs, and limits

Surgical Endoscopy and Other Interventional Techniques

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1488-1492

  Bendinelli, C ^a   Leal, T ^b   Moncade, F ^b   Dieng, M ^c   Toure, C T ^c   Miccoli, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b HÔPITAL PRINCIPAL DE DAKAR   (Senegal)

^c UNIVERSITÉ CHEIKH ANTA DIOP   (Senegal)

Author keywords

Cost analysis; Developing countries; Endoscopy; Laparoscopy; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; HOSPITAL COST; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LAPAROSCOPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OPERATION DURATION; PATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENEGAL; STAFF TRAINING; STOMACH FUNDOPLICATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACOSCOPE; VAGOTOMY;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, SURGICAL; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENEGAL; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0036789907     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: 14322218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-001-9188-1     Document Type: Article

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