Predicting conversion in laparoscopic colorectal surgery: Fellowship training may be an advantage

Surgical Endoscopy and Other Interventional Techniques

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1288-1291

  Schlachta, C M ^a   Mamazza, J ^a   Gregoire R ^b   Burpee, S E ^a   Pace, K T ^a   Poulin, E C ^a  

^a ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Colectomy; Colorectal surgery; Conversion; Fellowship training; Laparoscopy; Learning curve

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL EDUCATION; COLON CROHN DISEASE; COLON DIVERTICULOSIS; COLON POLYP; COLON RESECTION; COLORECTAL CANCER; COLORECTAL DISEASE; COLORECTAL SURGERY; COLOSTOMY; HEMICOLECTOMY; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LEARNING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM ABDOMINOPERINEAL RESECTION; RECTUM PROLAPSE; SURGEON; SURGICAL TRAINING; TREATMENT INDICATION; ULCERATIVE COLITIS;

BODY WEIGHT; COLONIC DISEASES; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FELLOWSHIPS AND SCHOLARSHIPS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; LEARNING; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OBESITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECTAL DISEASES; SURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0041858020     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: 14322218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-002-8920-9     Document Type: Article

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