Endoscopic surgery: What has passed the test?

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 816-824

  Kohler L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DUODENUM ULCER; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; GASTRIC BANDING; GASTROINTESTINAL SURGERY; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MORBID OBESITY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; REVIEW; STOMACH FUNDOPLICATION;

ENDOSCOPES; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS; TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT, BIOMEDICAL;

EID: 0344994667     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002689900585     Document Type: Review

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