The use of laparoscopy in abdominal emergencies

Surgical Endoscopy and Other Interventional Techniques

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1118-1124

  Kirshtein, B ^a   Roy Shapira, A ^a   Lantsberg, L ^a   Mandel, S ^a   Avinoach, E ^a   Mizrahi, S ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Abdominal emergencies; Acute abdomen; Diagnostic laparoscopy; Minimally invasive surgery

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE ABDOMEN; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; PERITONITIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; SKIN INCISION; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT PLANNING; ABDOMINAL SURGERY; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LAPAROTOMY; MORBIDITY; SURGICAL APPROACH;

EID: 0038015454     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: 14322218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-002-9114-1     Document Type: Article

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