One-year cohort of abdominal, vaginal, and laparoscopic hysterectomies: Complications and subjective outcomes

Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Volumn 189, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 389-396

  Meltomaa, Seija S ^a   Mäkinen, Juha I ^a   Taalikka, Mikko O ^a   Helenius, Hans Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL HYSTERECTOMY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORBIDITY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL RISK; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VAGINAL HYSTERECTOMY;

ADULT; FEMALE; GENITAL DISEASES, FEMALE; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; HYSTERECTOMY, VAGINAL; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; LAPAROSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0344199849     PISSN: 10727515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1072-7515(99)00170-2     Document Type: Article

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