Needlescopic operation: Surgery of the future?

Hong Kong Medical Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 236-237

  Yeung, C K ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CONVALESCENCE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; EDITORIAL; ENDOSCOPY; FUTUROLOGY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LAPAROSCOPY; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MORBIDITY; NEEDLESCOPIC OPERATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; SURGICAL INSTRUMENT; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ENDOSCOPES; FORECASTING; HUMANS; INSERVICE TRAINING; MINIATURIZATION; NEEDLES; SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE;

EID: 0041662154     PISSN: 10242708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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